Looking for an apartment in the MARINA area

Dubai is like a gigantic sand castle playground. All the buildings are very similar from one another and most have this distinctive drab-sand color that is reminiscent of my painting 'De Sable et d'Eau', the one posted on my intro to this blog.
*** Thank goodness for the red car!


Cranes, construction posts and flags are the most colorful accents on this bland city canvas. The question is: What will be left when the construction is finished and the expats are gone?

Some say it is doomed to become the biggest ghost town ever created!

I may end up getting the apartment we visited on this street with no name - (i.e.: streets have no names and buildings, no addresses; street lights are few and far between; round-abouts and U-turns are everwhere and people don't seam to know what yeild or slow down means.
Eveything seams to impair efficiency which drives Glen crazy!