Deira Diary

Managed to get out of the empty shell that is my new abode in Bur Dubai and met a journalist friend at the Blue Bar at the Novotel in Za’abe...

Back at the California Hotel, it was as if I had never been away, so pleased were the staff to welcome me back to what has become home. I am...

On the plane back from Europe, after a week of meetings at head quarters, I spent much of the time fighting against exhaustion and attemptin...

At the California Hotel just off Nakheel street, there were, on the last count, four so called night clubs, at least three bars and at least...

This place continues to fascinate me. It can seem like hell on earth when you’re walking back to your hotel via Sabkha street where the pave...