I'm on holiday. A long break overseas - landing in France, driving into Germany, then flying home via Thailand.
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Getting here meant 30 hours in transit with a three year old. He did pretty well, though there's a certain level of exhausting paranoia necessary when you take an adventurous child through an international airport.
We spent a few hours in Dubai airport, which appears to be a massive duty free shop designed by someone with far too much money.
This is a stone waterfall / fountain, next to the main elevator bank in the 'A' terminal. You can see the curving roof overhead - from outside, the whole building appears to be a tube lying in its side.
And outside it's over 40 degrees and muggy as hell. The minute it took to climb from the bus into the plane convinced me that I really didn't want to live there.
But we finally landed in Nice, which is a gorgeous French seaside city.
Nice used to be Italian and it still has that shabby-chic Italian feel to it. The buildings are all beautiful, painted in lovely colours, but perhaps they're about due for a new coat?
