Size counts!

Now I think any Jube Eye blogger would have a feeling in his or her waters that I have a mild obsession with the BURJ DUBAI building currently under construction not one kilometre from my apartment. Every day I see it I'm in awe at it's size and can't wait for it to be finished. Nicole on the other hand is convinced it will fall down one day and has therefore sworn never to grace the lobby with her presence when it's open to the public! Giorgio Armani has designed the interior and his first hotel in the world will occupy the first 37 floors.

As it stands it is the second tallest building in the world at 500 metres, and when completed next year it will be the tallest structure ever created in human history. Dramatic or what!?

Dubai's traffic is set to get a shake-up next week when the very first road toll is imposed on the most overused bridge in the city. There are only three ways to cross the Dubai creek and get from one side of town to the other, and it so happens that the toll is being slapped on the one I need to get from home to work and back! As a consequence, we have been trying out our alternatives of late, trying to find ways to avoid paying $3 a day... These photos of the Sheikh Zayed Road strip from a distance at sunset, show you just how ENORMOUS the Burj Dubai is compared to everything else. They work best when you click on them and see them enlarged...