This morning I read on twitter that there was a polo game in the new ‘Al Habtour Polo club and resort’, next to the worldfamous Arabian stables. Since I always had a weak spot for horses + love to mingle with the rich and famous (loved Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty woman’ 😁), we decided to go and have a look. Our taxidriver had to use his GPS, since he had never been there before and it was indeed in ‘ the middle of nowhere’! The clubhotel St. Regis was still under construction and the sheik would only come tomorrow, so except for a handful of tourist and the poloplayers, there were no VIP’s 😩.
The good thing is that we could easily talk to the players between chukka’s.. Polo, being one of the world oldest games, is one of the fastest and also one of the most dangerous games. Most poloplayers are Argentinian. To see how man and horse partner together to drive the ball through the goal is brutish, fascinating and beautiful. Today was only practice, but tomorrow the Mc Laren Cup will be played, sponsored by Mc Laren and Bentley.
We asked a couple, who were like us, dressed for the occasion, how on earth to get a taxi in the middle of the desert. Thankfully they offered us a ride in their car. Ceren and her husband are from Istanbul and Ankara, and Ceren’s husband works in Dubai for Tekso refrigerators. They liked living and working in Dubai. Summers were horrible, but they live in an apartment near the Marina, so it was not too bad. Ceren showed me pictures of het friends snowboarding in the streets of Istanbul just 10 days ago. Wauw…
They kindly dropped us off at the Marina and we had a lovely ‘steak frites’ dinner at ‘Fournil de Pierre’.
After that we walked along the shore and visited some more exclusive hotels, the Westin and the ‘One and Only’. Very luxurious and expensive!
We ended up in the world famous Barasti beach club, the hot spot in Dubai ( http://www.barastibeach.com) to party
the night away…
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