I made a discovery today. Well, the place has always been around; the iconic buildings erected now for a decade, and the endless blue of Arabian sky nothing novel to the bedouins of the U.A.E. It’s more the view; this perspective only birds and fortunate souls receive when yon high like I found myself today – on the rooftop of the Pullman Hotel, attached to the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai.
Rays of sun hit the metal jacket of the Burj Al Arab and bounce away in shafts of light-beams at sharp angles; the curve of Jumiera Beach Hotel akin to the studied undulation of a wave; Dubai’s hazy atmosphere heavy with desert sand blowing in from nearby Emirate Sharjah. This was my first view from the rooftop.
View number 2: framed electricity of light, blowing out the pool and causing a delicious, hot over exposing of sunbathers. At 28 degrees centigrade, pool water is deemed a little too “cool” for those of us who have been living years in the desert. Brats.
However by 3PM, we are panting; the water invites us all in…using the hand rails to slip in, of course…
…and by 4Pm as the Northern Spring light begins to paint the earth with its glow, roads take on a supernatural curve, and the urban landscape, extending out to the Arabian Gulf, becomes dazzling not in spite of, but because of its man-made conception. Sensory overload: my rooftop day is done.
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