Back Again

Back after a very quiet holiday in France, read - deserted farmhouse next to a Buddhist monastery with one Weasel climbing the walls after a couple of days.
However it seems during my time away that things have started to hot up on the property front, the Telegraph in the UK, up until now more than happy to trumpet the fantastic deals to be had in Dubai, printed an interesting article daring to question the viability of the Palm project, read the full text here.
It does only really articulate what anyone who lives here has known for ages but may finally start to expose the development as the glorified Barrat estate that the fronds are starting to resemble. Flying over on the way out one can only chuckle at the density of housing there and wonder at how little it resembles the model that was so widely touted around Dubai and the world with it's wide open spaces between houses.
Going on past form there are many questions that need to be answered, infrastructure, especially parking, does not appear to have been considered on the trunk and that's before the more pressing problem of how to provide needs like electricity and water to an expected population density that is still a secret.
DW