Here’s what I know about Dubai beach

July 13, 2009

When you visit Dubai, it is better to visiting the beaches in Dubai as well. Dubai beach is one of the beautiful beaches in the world. Dubai has very nice white silver sandy beaches where there is clear water. All travel advisors would agree with this. All the beach lovers will surely going to love those best beaches in Dubai.

There are numerous amazingly nice beaches in Dubai, where they provide you with so many different types of activities for you to be entertained. One of the very famous beaches in Dubai is Palm Beach where many of the visitors visit to enjoy the wonderful feelings of being in soft sandy beaches. Also, most of the visitors love the coast area which is simply perfect for relaxing, lazing or even for sunbathing. And for the active visitors who visit there, there are water sports that you can enjoy in the warm waters of the Arabian Gulf. During winter holidays, most of the tourists visit to the Dubai beaches. During summer Dubai is good place to visit to experience warmness. The temperature rises so high up to 50 degree centigrade with relatively high humidity. Please be sure to get your latest travel advice on Dubai before travelling.

In Dubai there is very famous and popular beach named as Jumeirah beach. Jumeirah beach is famous for having a long stretch beach with lot of private clubs. They are interspaced by few of public access marine beaches. You can walk and enjoy on Jumeirah beach where it has soft and white sand. If you want to enjoy in a white and soft beach in Dubai, you can always visit Jumeirah beach. You have got hotels to stay and clubs to enjoy just near the beach. But don’t expect alcohol in Dubai clubs, as it is prohibited in all the public places in Dubai.

Manzar beach is a lovely beach found in Dubai. The name Manzar is given for a very famous park in Dubai. One of the borders of that park is beach, and they named it as Manzar beach. To access Manzar beach, you need to buy tickets to enter the park. This is because you can’t directly enter into Manzar beach without visiting the Manzar Park. This beach is 25 minutes drive from the city center. The Manzar beach is specially designed for the holiday-makers from different parts of the world. It has got amazing barbecue spots, villas and many other facilities for the visitors. Manzar beach is a lovely and amazing beach you can visit in Dubai.

Never forget about the Jabel Ali beach, when you talk about the beaches in Dubai. Jabel Ali is a famous place for many reasons. It is also known as the place for good golf clubs, holiday resorts and also hotels. You can find most of the duty free industrial zones in Jabel Ali. Other than this, it is more the more famous for having the beautiful beach and proposed palm island in Jabel Ali.

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Roots, Rock ‘n Blues – American Roots Music

July 13, 2009

I fell in love with American roots music while I was in college in the late 1960s. The irony of that is that I was born and grew up in the Washington, DC area and had to move to Minnesota to hear the blues for the first time!

I should say that it was in college that I first heard the blues played by the original artists. I’d been a big fan of the Rolling Stones and numerous other British Invasion groups who were all playing their versions of the blues, or derivatives thereof. I just had no idea at the time that they’d been so heavily influenced by a whole generation of musicians that I’d never heard of.

In the meantime, there were American musicians playing blues and blues-influenced rock to small, but devoted audiences. Three of my favorites (discovered for the most part years later) were Lonnie Mack, Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan. Lonnie Mack is best known for his radio hits, but is a killer blues player as I discovered much to my surprise when Alligator Records put out a video of a concert with Lonnie, Albert and Roy at Carnegie Hall in New York City from the early 1990s. The concert was called “Further On Down The Road” and was a real eye-opener for me when I first saw it. It’s still one of my favorite videos.

With the explosion of videos on the Internet, there is a wealth of blues video footage from the 1950s through today. It’s a blessing that so much still survives from the early days. Watching some of these legends perform helps make it clear just why they are legendary.

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