This is a draft which I was yet to post dating to around 4 months back and should have followed my post on Mother Mary's statue....nevertheless I thought of working on it as it is something that I'd like to recount, about 4 months back.....
One month has passed ever since I, my sister and my mother had left for U.A.E and now we're back in Goa.We just returned back on the 24th of November, so around two weeks have passed ever since we returned back. I can still imagine the excitement when the day actually dawned for us to leave for U.A.E. That day it so happened to be my birthday, so it was really very exciting to travel on that particular day. I remember on that day, after we had met with a few people in our neighborhood, we left the house in a private taxi to head off to the airport. I, my sister and my mother were all smiles as we were heading to the airport. What's more......on arrival at the check in counter at Air India, I was greeted with a bouquet of flowers and a hamper with nice eatables in it with compliments from the airline. I was really filled with awe on knowing that I received a surprise gift from the airline on the occasion that it was my birthday and I just couldn't believe my eyes as I never in my life had got this surprise from any airline in the world. Not forgetting the thousands of WhatsApp messages from my classmates, the Instagram and Facebook wishes from my near and dear people also made that day of mine a memorable one!!!
While we were around in U.A.E, we visited the places we often used to visit when we used to live over there at that time. We had come to U.A.E after a around almost six months...so we really saw a lot of change in our neighborhood, especially in one of the supermarkets which earlier in the past used to do very well in business, but now off-late very few people are coming to this supermarket and sadly this supermarket is running out of business and has started removing most of the racks from it's vegetable section. What's more, another supermarket is coming up, just next to it. Besides that many new restaurants and boutiques have just opened up nearby with one of them offering branded clothes like GAP and also selling expensive perfumes like 'Dior' or 'Givenchy'. Apart from that we visited places nearby like the Buhairah Corniche, the Flag Island, the boutiques along Al Wahda Street including the Sharjah City Centre Mall and over there on the Flag Island, a lot of food trucks have come up almost resembling the ones at City Walk in Dubai. Also not to forget, we visited the Central Souk of Sharjah after a long time and this made me feel very nostalgic of my childhood.
It was really great to see how much development has taken place in Sharjah and I believe that Sharjah in particular the 'Flag Island' can become the next place to visit after Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the U.A.E.
We also went around to a number of places in Dubai, but I still felt that the places we visited in Sharjah, though nearby were the ones I felt were worth recounting. Overall it was a really nice trip we had to U.A.E after almost six months over here in Goa and I'm now waiting to head to the U.A.E in just few days time after my term exams get over!!!!!
PS: Attached below are some of the highlights of our last trip to U.A.E
One month has passed ever since I, my sister and my mother had left for U.A.E and now we're back in Goa.We just returned back on the 24th of November, so around two weeks have passed ever since we returned back. I can still imagine the excitement when the day actually dawned for us to leave for U.A.E. That day it so happened to be my birthday, so it was really very exciting to travel on that particular day. I remember on that day, after we had met with a few people in our neighborhood, we left the house in a private taxi to head off to the airport. I, my sister and my mother were all smiles as we were heading to the airport. What's more......on arrival at the check in counter at Air India, I was greeted with a bouquet of flowers and a hamper with nice eatables in it with compliments from the airline. I was really filled with awe on knowing that I received a surprise gift from the airline on the occasion that it was my birthday and I just couldn't believe my eyes as I never in my life had got this surprise from any airline in the world. Not forgetting the thousands of WhatsApp messages from my classmates, the Instagram and Facebook wishes from my near and dear people also made that day of mine a memorable one!!!
While we were around in U.A.E, we visited the places we often used to visit when we used to live over there at that time. We had come to U.A.E after a around almost six months...so we really saw a lot of change in our neighborhood, especially in one of the supermarkets which earlier in the past used to do very well in business, but now off-late very few people are coming to this supermarket and sadly this supermarket is running out of business and has started removing most of the racks from it's vegetable section. What's more, another supermarket is coming up, just next to it. Besides that many new restaurants and boutiques have just opened up nearby with one of them offering branded clothes like GAP and also selling expensive perfumes like 'Dior' or 'Givenchy'. Apart from that we visited places nearby like the Buhairah Corniche, the Flag Island, the boutiques along Al Wahda Street including the Sharjah City Centre Mall and over there on the Flag Island, a lot of food trucks have come up almost resembling the ones at City Walk in Dubai. Also not to forget, we visited the Central Souk of Sharjah after a long time and this made me feel very nostalgic of my childhood.
It was really great to see how much development has taken place in Sharjah and I believe that Sharjah in particular the 'Flag Island' can become the next place to visit after Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the U.A.E.
We also went around to a number of places in Dubai, but I still felt that the places we visited in Sharjah, though nearby were the ones I felt were worth recounting. Overall it was a really nice trip we had to U.A.E after almost six months over here in Goa and I'm now waiting to head to the U.A.E in just few days time after my term exams get over!!!!!
PS: Attached below are some of the highlights of our last trip to U.A.E
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Rohith Amazing. I didn't know you write so well. You have changed a lot since we last met.