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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1375955" data-attributes="member: 12449">If that is hell, I hate to think what the Dubai Mall is ...for some insane reason, a move a regretted immediately, I turned into this monster of a place on my last day in the Middle East. Like the rest of Dubai nothing is finished, the mall is a semi-constructed effort which strives to be the biggest in the world. Hell would have been pleasant in comparison to this place, mildly amusing was the 60 metre indoor Christmas tree that had lights flashing in beat to the music, less amusing the labarynth of shops that spewed off in all directions, each individual outlet an overpriced replica of any similar store in any other city in the world. Finally overcome by the urge to leave (about three minutes after arriving, but lost in the entanglement of aisles, floors, sections and escalators and lifts, the reality being nearer an hour), I fled to the car park to retrieve my car. And then to leave ...who the hell designed that car park?! Up two floors, down, round, past new construction, up floors again, round and round, I swear I drove almost 2 km under that sodding store before I saw the light of day again, took me hours to regain a degree of sanity, not that I had much to start with.Birding tip # 264. Never never, on the way back from Arabia's first ever Red-flanked Bluetail, think 'OO, I'll just pop in to buy a souvenir for those back home'</blockquote>