Abu Dhabi heat
sweet sweaty heat to warm me
and heal my tired bones
~
I had to dig deep to find a picture of TRAFFIC for our One-a-Week Photo Challenge this week. There is some traffic there, really there is.
Click on the link to see a whole year of subjects ready and waiting for you to have fun with. This picture goes well with Ronovan’s prompt words of SWEAT and HEAT for his Haiku Challenge.
I had to go back to January 2014 when I went to Abu Dhabi to spend two weeks in the sunshine. That winter I had had one illness after the other and needed to feel sunshine on my body to feel well again. Luckily my brother-in-law was working in Abu Dhabi and I was able to stay with him. I spent long delicious hours wandering the beach collecting shells.
You can see more about what I got up to on that trip here, here, and here
And my favourite shell picture here.
Cathy and I have enjoyed creating a list of prompts for the whole year. Please leave your links to your TRAFFIC photos in the comments and I will include them in my monthly round-up.
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Wild Daffodil 
How Interesting – I have never visited this part of the world.
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I don’t think I would ever have gone but for visiting one of the family, it was fascinating. Women are treated so differently, an eye-opener!
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Yes, a good friend of mine visited a friend of hers who lives there and she found it rather restrictive. I’m not sure I could live under such rules.
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I know I couldn’t! I find it hard enough here!!!!!!! 😉
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Fascinating post. I love your shell-art 🙂
I am at present following the Abu Dhabi cycling tour on tv and the desert looks forbidding but the architecture is tremendous.
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Thank you G.F. – I did not get out into the desert when I was there – you are right about the architecture – some is breathtaking with more being built all the time.
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Hi Sandra, here is the link to my TRAFFIC, something outside the box, or more up in the sky perhaps https://haikuhound.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/lunch-time/
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Thank you Denis, always good to have entries with creative thinking.
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Fascinating images, not the usual beachside destination for Australians.
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Indeed! I would never have chosen to go to Abu Dhabi, if my b-i-l had not been there. I’m glad I went though – such a different culture.
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Lovely, Daffy! 🙂
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Thank you Eddie.
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From where did you snap the aerial photo?
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It was from a posh restaurant atop a tall tower – can’t remember its name. Did you think I’d taken flight!?
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Yes, thought I’d uncovered your secret super power! 😉
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Ha! Ha! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to zoom up high under one’s own steam!
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I’d love to!
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I would melt in Abu Dhabi, but that shell picture is so sweet.
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It wasn’t too hot in January and quite breezy a lot of the time, bu tI don’t know how my b-i-l works there all year round!
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Oh my, too hot for me. Somehow Abu Dhabi and shell pictures don’t go together in my mind. Good to have to do the double take and examine my preconceptions. Great traffic picture.
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Finding so many pretty shells on the beach was a surprise to me too. Finding a picture of traffic was much harder! 😉
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Love your shell picture! Just thinking about that sort of heat makes my bones long for sunshine too🙂.
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I know what you mean Kate, I had a fun time drooling over the photos and imagining myself basking on the sun-bed once more.
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Just think, the sun is always up there above the winter blanket of grey clouds ….
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Aaaaaaah yes! You have reminded me of one of my favourite sayings – I think it is Maori: “Behind the clouds the sun is always shining” 😀
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Not heard that before but I love it!!
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