Dubai

Bottle of guava juice: 1.25 dirhams. Fine for littering, stringently enforced: 500 dirhams. Seeing an Indian throw something in a garbage can: priceless. Yet another moment when I wished I had my camera.

However, I was encouraged by the cabbie (also Indian, of course) to take a picture of the Burj Al Arab, the world's only seven-star hotel on its own custom-built island, with my phone, from the gate, where we were told rather unequivocally to turn around. I'll put it up here once I figure out how to email myself from my phone. What have I become?