A business trip to the Middle East thankfully took me out of the uncommonly cold European winter to very benign temperatures in the United Arab Emirates.
While mostly preoccupied with busines affairs, I had plenty of opportunity to do some photography.
While my destination was Sharjah, we first landed in Doha,Qatar and the first two images were taken while landing and no.3 was taken from the aircraft while preparing for departure again.

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People were loading the ships ('dhows') or relaxing on deck, enjoying a smoke or playing cards.
People were very kind, no one objected being photographed, just waved and said hello or 'Namasté'...