Supposed to be canary islands

I've actually been to Madrid and Alicante... Looooong time ago. What a trip.

Like a giant Atlantic city?

@UrsiMajor not unless atlantic city is full of well-covered-up women glaring at you for not being draped from scalp to toenail.

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@genessa For real? I thought Dubai was a Sin City?

@UrsiMajor okay i am going to fess up now. i only was at the airport, in the duty-free shop. it IS as i described. the city itself... maybe those women are frowning because dubai is sin city! but i have seen pictures of the city, the architecture and all, and it looks really... not like atlantic city but like the kind of place that might have golden toilets. i don't find that appealing. but technically i have been to dubai, did gain an impression of it, and all!

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@genessa my friend who lives in Saudi Arabia signed a disclosure saying she understands the penalty is death if she does any drinking or drugs off of the American base in Saudi. She also has to wear a habib off of base. I won't go into the details of how sweet the financial deal she gets for working there, but she can retire for life after 5 years. My beheading would be about five minutes after my plane landed. Everyone goes to Bahrain for the drinking and debauchery..Short drive from Saudi...

@Crimson67 i know... but it's all i've got. (also this was a couple decades ago -- the airport may have changed, and may have reflected the culture of the place at the time.)

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That looks amazing.. Expensive?

Some like it hot?

@UrsiMajor True! You can still have heat without all the dust and belief systems found in those middle eastern locales. Did my time there and I have no desire to return. Maybe somewhere with tradewinds.

On my list to do before I die... Pricey?