Landscaping

 This is a part of the Corniche... its a fancy word for sea-face... Very nicely landscaped. Every part is different! No confusion at all! Very nice place! I like :) Very accessible, lots of green, beach, skating and cycling space, performance space and display too... and of course- food!



This is a strip outside my office. Patchy green grass... I say off with the grass to save water and thicken the trees so we can walk in the summer too. Please listen to me, Urban Planning Council. I know everything.



Green, fat median. I'm the only person that actually uses it, I think- I WALK on it.... Everybody else uses it as an eye-comforter.

Bainuna Circle... leading up to the Emirates Palace Hotel- fancy-like.... You can smell the richness- just through the flowers...


This is a bloody traffic circle! there's no legal way to get here, no zebra crossing, nothing. Yet a wonderful pathway starting from nowhere....


Little nicer looking landscaping outside some office building. But the landscaping cuts off the footpath completely. So if you're walking, you have to climb up a slope, go through here, and climb down straight onto a road... but that's not the crappy part! The crappy part is that this landscaped terrace has trenches all over!!! Apparently for water to flow through.... but if you're wearing a tight skirt... don't bother ...


And after the trenched terrace, you cross a road, and the path slopes down into this intimate little pathway.... grass wall one side, cars above, and thick trees on another side. Very cosy....


This is the cherry on the cake- its a 30M WIDE MEDIAN!!!!!! With only 2 lane roads on either side!!! wtf!!! What an eye-wash!
So foreign-lady-that-shall-not-be-named says "...so I came here for the first time and was hoping it wasn't like Dubai, and then i saw how greeeeeen it was and knew I could live here... ooo... aa... ooo...." But foreign-lady-that-shall-not-be-named doesn't realize that THIS IS A DESERT!!! ITS UNNATURAL TO HAVE IT SO GREEN.....  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So- just because they wanna woo the idiot foreigners, they spend all their time and money on senselessly manicured green spaces that CAN'T EVEN BE ACCESSED!!!! Why would I send my kids to a 30M wide MEDIAN to play, when they can bloody well play in the garden of my villa where I can watch them through my kitchen window???

Now here's an innocent area that could do with some 30M wide green medians.... I'm sure it'll be better used, at least.... stoopid money-wasters....