A few things I've learned about getting around in Dubai:
- You pretty much need to drive everywhere
- Everyone drives like a lunatic here - the speed limit on the highway is 120km/h but even trucks in the slow lane go faster than that, no surprise there are so many accidents
- There is no such thing as a street address in the older parts of town - places are only relative to other places. To get to our appartment all you need to tell a cabbie is "Bur Dubai (the part of town we live in), Al Mashrabia (the name of our building), behind the new Spinny's (a grocery store)". If he still gives you a funny look, then just add "beside the Burjamon Centre".
- Some people don't believe you when you tell them that your building doesn't actually have a street address, just because they live in a poshy beachfront villa in Jumeirah ...
- Traffic is always bad, all day, all the time. There are over 1.5 million people in Dubai now and although the roads and highways here are even more manicured than they are in Switzerland, there's just too many cars on the road.