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Slim Paley photo

Night falls at The United Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi

Where the sand is very white

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The cars are silver

Not painted silver, actually silver

(it drove right past my friend arriving to the hotel)

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And the Desert desserts are sprinkled with real gold

Have you ever had “Umm Ali”?  I will be ordering this again.

Interesting dilemma; If you get gold stuck in your teeth should you save it??

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Over the top-ness aside, the level of service was great and the food absolutely delicious.  When this breakfast of egg white omelette with wild mushrooms, goat cheese, roasted tomatos and potatoes arrived I thought-well, honestly, who would eat that many potatoes at breakfast.

 Apparently ME, accompanied by the best freshly squeezed green apple and pomegranite juice. So yummy.

Didn’t have time to go sight-seeing this being just a quick pit-stop enroute to Sri Lanka.

More to follow soon…

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Hope everyone had  a wonderful weekend.

I bet you’re all watching Downton tonight. I see “Cousin Matthew” is tweeting away but don’t want to even glance in case of spoilers.

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