{"id":6006,"date":"2014-08-13T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T22:59:00","slug":"instawalk-couple-hours-old-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/08\/instawalk-couple-hours-old-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: A Couple Hours in Old Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

on the Dubai DO with Points Summary<\/a> and Travel Summary<\/a> (and someone else who doesn’t summarize)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

this was my first full day in Dubai after arriving late last night from Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a>. i was really worried it was going to be ridiculously flames-flames-on-the-side-of-my-face<\/a> hot — and it was, but as long as the wind is blowing and you’re in the shade, it’s not too bad, this 45\u00b0C (113\u00b0F) weather. not that i would prefer to spend all day out in the sun, but it’s tolerable, especially if you’re in the shade of the souks in Old Dubai.<\/p>\n

a brief word about relying on Google Maps for driving directions around here, it’s best to have a navigator because the larger streets seem to constantly split into overpasses or left\/right-turn-only lanes and i found myself always, always<\/em> taking the wrong road. add to that the fact that the road signs never seem to match the names Google wants (even the English ones).<\/p>\n

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So lost. Pulled over to study map because SIGNS DON'T MATCH pic.twitter.com\/6PhwMcoUaP<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) August 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n