THE BURJ AL ARAB IS INTENDED TO RESEMBLE A SAIL; IN FACT, IT LOOKS LIKE HALF A PAIR OF GIANT BLOOMERS LASHED TO A CLOTHES-HORSE

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I can't understand why people want to spend their holidays in Dubai. Certainly the weather is usually fine (except during sand storms). But in summer at least, it can be almost unbearably hot - during a recent visit, the temperature reached almost 50℃, which meant that leaving an air-conditioned building felt like being rammed under a grill, and your hair feels as if it might burst into flames. Wear a hat - injudicious exposure to the sun plainly gives many porcine, pinkly piebald northern European tourists the most tormenting dermatological problems.