Gives me a whole new perspective on Ingrid's former hometown of Dubai. It makes sense that they called in Dutch engineers to solve problems in building the island, as the better part of the Netherlands just rose up out of the water in the last century.
Friday, August 11, 2006
doe-het-zelf paradise
The weirdest man-made island to date?
Gives me a whole new perspective on Ingrid's former hometown of Dubai. It makes sense that they called in Dutch engineers to solve problems in building the island, as the better part of the Netherlands just rose up out of the water in the last century.
Gives me a whole new perspective on Ingrid's former hometown of Dubai. It makes sense that they called in Dutch engineers to solve problems in building the island, as the better part of the Netherlands just rose up out of the water in the last century.
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Most of the times, my flight to Oman goes right over Dubai. Just a year ago, I had the chance to catch a glimpse of the palm tree island from 35000 feet. I had to photoshop the original picture to get rid of the morning haze, but the islands and the burj al-arab hotel are clearly visible! Last time in April, I was just a second too late to photograph the world map islands, already under construction. Hopefully I'll be able to take that one next time, as I'm leaving for Oman again in two weeks :-) If we'll still be allowed to carry cameras in our hand luggage... :-s
Anyway, a year ago I actually met one of the Dutch engineers working there as he was on a holliday in Oman (there's nothing to see in Dubai except for plain desert and huge cities whether or not under construction; every expat working in Dubai goes on a holliday to Oman). He was the arrogant-bastard-type-of-expat-engineer, and when he heard we were from Belgium he sneered at us he was actually called in after Belgium dredging companies managed to build the first islands - which started sinking away immediately after construction. Hostile Dutch-Belgian competition thousands of miles abroad... it exists :-p
Geez, you'd think one would be happy to encounter someone who speaks one's own language (practically) in a foreign country. He was clearly compensating for other insecurities. 8) What are the world map islands?
Roughly the same: artificial islands near Dubai, but instead of forming a palm tree image, they're supposed to compose a world map, something like this; although they're still under construction. Totally insane :-)
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