Dallying in Dubai!

I don’t think many people had even heard of Dubai at (say) the time of Zimbabwean independence in 1980 and I for one never saw any reason why I should ever get there on my travels.

Column by Dusty Miller

(I did know of its existence through collecting the stamps of the old British Empire, when Dubai was one of the Trucial States whose postal material was either very dull or pictorially bright and interesting, with nothing in between.)

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