Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-12

  • Off to Emirates Mall whilst Isla at nursery.. #
  • good luck to sally on her way to fame at radio Norfolk 🙂 #
  • She proceeded to go into one of her screaming fits. Nick and I ejected and went to berts cafe #
  • Wonder when Sally is on Radio Norfolk – currently a gardening programme on! #
  • Still gardening talking about plump bulbs! #
  • Sally had her 10minutes of fame on radio Norfolk – she did really well – all recorded as an mp3 in Dubai 🙂 #
  • Here is the link to sally talking on the radio http://sallyinnorfolk.com/radio/sallyradio.mp3 #
  • Oops a daisy the link to sallys radio appearance is at https://geoffjones.com/radio/sallyradio.mp3 #
  • @annie2000 Hopefully we will have better version up later – without the 1min hisses #

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UK Drivers look the other way…..

Whilst on my walk from Nicks offices in Media City. I came across a filling station:-

Petrol prices

That is at the exchange rate today:-

6.25 AED

=

0.834319 GBP
United Arab Emirates Dirhams United Kingdom Pounds
1 AED = 0.133491 GBP 1 GBP = 7.49114 AED

or about 83 pence per gallon, Nick says, don’t forget about the free window cleaning and that you don’t have to get out of the car to get it filled up.
Office viewI guess that’s why he has a gas guzzling  Jeep Wrangler.

Here is a view from his office window, with his view of the Persian Gulf, beache and the One and Only resort .(apologies the link is to a crappy flash site 🙁 )

Dubai past and present

Fred Wilson posted these two images of Dubai taken 13 years apart on his tumblr page (linked to the Edibek blog), which contains loads of interesting Dubai facts.

Cranes in DubaiDesert site I went out this afternoon in the area next to Nicks apartment and you can see the furious rate of building from the number of cranes in this picture and an aerial photograph of the same area taken a couple of years ago.