Camel riding and sand surfing Dubai is one of the few places in the world where you can try sand surfing using a snowboard.
You'll be chatting it up in Paris, Dubai, Tokyo, and Sydney in no time in a perfectly seamless kind of way.
Paul Austin, a British expat based in Dubai, lost many thousands of pounds in the Imperial fiasco.
Dubai has even, it seems, turned Jim into a sensitive soul, not something he 's renowned for back in Britain.
Emirates (0870 243 2222; www.emirates.com) flies daily from Birmingham, Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester and Glasgow via Dubai and Sydney.