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Dubai, a most interesting place to visit

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Do you ever wish that you could travel to an exotic land? I do, and after reading about Dubai I can’t think of a more interesting or exotic place to travel to. You might know that Dubai is the second largest emirate of the united Arab Emirates after Abu Dhabi, but you might not know that it’s the most populous area as well.

Oddly enough, when many of us think of the middle East and the United Emirates we probably think of oil as one of their main sources of revenue- and what a source that is. However Dubai only receives 6% of it’s gross domestic product through sales of oil. Increasingly a major source of it’s revenue comes from tourism.

dubai_sports_city.jpg Would you have ever believed that Dubai would have a fantastic sports stadium such as the Dubai Sports City property. Just look at that. It’s a first class sports arena.

So yes, I’m thinking that perhaps someday Chris and I might visit Dubai, after all it’s hot all year round so we could go at any time of year and there are so many interesting places to visit. Just the sheer history of the land. Hey, perhaps we’ll visit the artificial Islands such as Dubai Marina or The Palm – a completely man made island in the shape of a palm. What a creative idea.

Have any of my readers ever considered visiting a place such as Dubai?






Dreaming of living in exotic lands

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Living in a predominantly Greek area of the city I’ve learned quite a bit about Countries such as Greece and Turkey. Actually I also learned a lot about these Countries and their people when I worked in the jewelry trade too now that I think of it. As a result of living and working with people from these two Countries I’ve developed and interest and I’d love to visit both Countries one day.

Actually living in a Country such as Turkey would be very interesting. I’ve looked at a lot of pictures and the country is just gorgeous. Not to mention that many of the popular plants that I grow in my garden – the rose for one – are said to originally come from Turkey.

Looking at this Turkish real estate site makes me drool. I wish I could just pack up and move to such an exotic land. Perhaps some day if I get working on developing my earning potential and get healthy and get back to work I’ll be able to afford one of the beautiful Mediterranean style homes that are featured on the above mentioned site.

I can dream can’t I?

Properties In Spain

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Do you watch Home and Garden TV? I enjoy watching a number of programs on that channel. I must say that their garden programing has gone downhill as there’s very few garden programs on these days, and when they are on it’s like five or six a.m.. Poor programming times if you ask me.

Some of the show I like watching are the European ones where they visit properties in the UK or Spain, and discuss having a second home, or a vacation home. I hadn’t really seriously thought of purchasing Overseas Properties before, but the more I see these types of programs, the more interested I become.

There’s a website called Property Mart Overseas, who’s actually sponsoring this post, and they list a number of Properties to buy overseas. I’ve been taking a look at it and there are some remarkably beautiful homes for sale on the site.

Considering that I’ve heard so much about people purchasing Properties Spain through the HGTV shows, I’ve focused on that area of the website. In their listings there are some properties that look almost like small castles. I love the look. That one, I’m sure is way out of my price range, but others are actually within a price range that I could afford- even taking into account my travel expenses back and forth from Canada a few times a year. They even have an interesting looking cave house listed.

Have you ever thought of purchasing a second property to use as a vacation home? Perhaps renting it out to others when you weren’t using it yourself? If you have, or if you already do, do that, what has your experience been like?

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