Day 11 - Hillary's.

To save some cash and just to chill out for the afternoon we popped down to Hillary’s. As I said in a pervious blog it is a boat harbour with shallow waters to swim in, along with an array of shops and restaurants. 

We laid in the sun/shade for a bit but slowly became a bit peckish which is when we decided to walk over to San Churros for; yep you guessed it some Churros. These came with white and milk chocolate dip. The main reason we came here is because Michael said they did the best hot chocolate he’s ever had… so obviously I had to try some. My chosen flavour was Dark and it was pretty delicious. This is where I also tried and tested my first ever macaroon. I went for standard vanilla flavour as I thought it was best to start boring. I don’t really know what to make of them, I think they might be like cupcakes for me and I just prefer to look at them instead of eating them.

Day 4 – Radio 2, the Dubai Mall & Burj Khalifa.

Another early start, which is what you’re supposed to do, isn’t it? So you see as much as you can. I made my way to Gulf News, as this is where Hannah was presenting the Radio 2 breakfast show. I haven’t been in a radio studio for so long, it felt good. After the show she dropped me to The Dubai Mall, which is the biggest shopping mall in the world… I’ve found that a lot with Dubai, everything is the biggest and the best in the world. It seriously was huge though; it literally had every shop/restaurant you could think of. I spotted a Forever 21 and I couldn’t not go in and buy something… could I? 2 tops and a pair of shorts later I wondered around some more.

 I was booked to go up the Burj Khalifa at 2.30pm, on arrival they were handing out complimentary chocolates as the 4^th anniversary of the building had just passed. The viewing deck was on floor 124, which is 452m from the ground. The entire structure is 828m high. The views up there were amazing and I was lucky out of my 3 days in Dubai I chose that one, as it had been very cloudy on the other days.

I met Hannah and her mum for dinner at 5.30pm. We went to a Lebanese restaurant called Abd El Wahab. It had perfect views of the Fountains, which if you didn’t know went off every half an hour from 6pm. Each show lasted only a few minutes and had different music. The fountains were impressive to say the least, the height and spray they gave off was amazing, definitely a must see! I’ve never eaten Lebanese before but I enjoyed it very much so.