Transit day 2 Dubai

A whirlwind day stop in Dubai. From the 1am arrival and taxi ride to our friend's residential tower near the marina to crash and sleep. To an afternoon of catch up conversation and dinner after dark (it was Ramadan there). Finally another taxi back to the airport and a short relaxation in the Emirates lounge while we waited for our flight to London. We'll have a longer stop in Dubai when we're coming back from Europe. My main impression of Dubai has been dusty but mind boggling, almost a sci-fi city at the edge of the desert, albeit with a Star Wars grittiness. What in another city might be smog or haze, in Dubai is the presence of desert dust. The other gobsmacking aspect is the sheer scale of almost everything. The Emirates terminal was bigger than most airports' whole terminals. What this clearly translates to is a capacity of human traffic when things are busy. We came through around midnight so it was understandably empty, however there was still a fair number of staff on duty ensuring that we didn't have to wait at any stage. I do think that too many bad economic decisions in the wider west under-value the waste of time, which is essentially the most limited resource for each of us in our lives. You see the opposite of this in Singapore and it seems the Dubai authorities also understand it.