A Walk in the Marina (2)
The marina and promenade under a crisp morning sun, 3 November 2006. JBR towers ablaze in the background.
Dubai Marina is home to a slowly growing residential community. Although a great number of residential towers surround the Marina, most are U/C and won't be ready for habitation for some months or years to come. With a bit of exageration one could say the number of residents just equals the number of towers.
An early morning stoll would seem to confirm this. The promenade pavement on an early Friday morning is mostly empty, save for a few workers. The noise of construction activity, however, can already be heard.
A Walk in the Marina is one chapter in a novel-in-progress being written as part of the National Novel Writing Month. It offers a verbose rendering of the look and feel of the Marina without the aid of pictures. Simply called Dubai Marina (A Novel), the developing story is a fictional account that takes place in the backdrop of the Dubai Marina.
A Walk in the Marina (1) is a brief (earlier) post describing the sights and sounds of the location in November 2005.
Go to DM Blog latest posts, Dubai Marina Communities or MAG 218 Community homepage.
posted by B.D. at
Friday, November 03, 2006
3 Comments:
An early morning stoll would seem to confirm this. The promenade pavement on an early Friday morning is mostly empty
True, but then early Friday mornings are empty everywhere!
There are always a few fishermen up at the construction end of the Marina though - and by late Friday morning at Phase 1 it's jam- packed. Evenings the same, it's really buzzing - imagine the parking nightmare when a few more of the buildings and retail outlets are up and running.
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Seabee, at 06 November, 2006 17:01
Nice photos. I found your blog because i enjoyed your comments about blogging on another blog...and so it goes.
Speaking of blogs, I just noticed that the Media Watch blog is gone. (dxbsumo.wordpress.com)Any Idea what happened? It was a very opinionated page and seemed to have the inside scoop on the mismanagement at UAE media. From Labor headaches to editorial biases it covered everything. I miss it already.
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Anonymous, at 07 November, 2006 04:59
Hi Students, how many of you are there? Glad you like the DM photos. More are on the way, but it takes time to edit them all. Sorry, don't know about the blog you refer to. The link states the blog was removed by the author. Perhaps he/she was asked/warned to do so.
Seebee... thanks for that clarification.
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B.D., at 07 November, 2006 06:47
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