We have just collapsed back at Kumud and Gautam’s, exhausted from a day of serious mall trawling – no, wait – a day of physiotherapy.
Health bulletin first. Went for a check up with Deepak, who gave me the all-clear, as well as an injection in each knee cap. He says it’s the medical equivalent of WD40.
Then we walked up and down mile upon mile of luxury and wealth and bling and yet more bling, in the Dubai Mall. We kept discovering more and more sections of the mall – I must remember to check exactly how huge it is. It is sensory overload, writ large.
I mentioned in an earlier blog that Dubai certainly isn’t bargain basement, price-wise, the way it used to be when we first went there in the early 1990s. Stands to reason, really, because something/someone has to pay for the sheer sumptuosity of the malls. Did I just coin my own word of the day ?
Ice rink. Aquarium. Dancing fountains. Something has to cover all that – but what it means is that if you are there, trawling the malls just for physiotherapy, as I was, the whole experience is huge fun and totally OTT.
Favourites today ? Discovering a whole section of the mall devoted to baby designer clothes. Armani Junior, Burberry for Children. That kind of thing.
Jewellery shops selling gum-drop sized precious stones.
Watching the skaters at the ice rink while we had lunch.
And checking out all the bling-y nuances of the otherwise black, enveloping clothes that the women wear. They trim their abayas with serious amounts of crystals, or lace, or with satin, or silk – I saw one today with a bright turquoise lining and trimings, and another with acid-drop lemon. And it seems as though the equation is abaya = stonking great designer handbag. I have never seen as many Vuittons and what looked suspiciously like Birkins as today.
Bling-watching is my new favourite past-time. How ever am I going to cope back in Delhi ? Haunt Emporio ?
you have WD40 in your knees? you mean you wade in and fish come to be caught?
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pity we can’t buy the WD40 for knees off the shelf – Or maybe Boots No7 could include a Protect and Preserve for knees like they do for faces?
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cannot believe ‘mall trawling’ qualifies as physiotherapy!! what kind of doctor prescribes that? anyway good to read you are feeling good WD40′D and all. recommend can with long fine strawlike tube as it reaches parts other oils do not! whilst at it nothing like good desi ghee malish. hrh can translate. suggest you invest in one of them abayas to ride in.
Good to know ‘These knees are made for walkin’ . It’s another matter that what they’re doing sounds more like wadin’ through all that super-luxurious bling and million-dollar accessories. Well, you’re in good shape for tackling Emporio now. Those vast empty spaces there need people to fill them!