Its Friday Morning, 07.00 am. Time to meet the guys from Harley to have the obligatory Friday morning breakfast ride.
Today its going to “Khasab”, Terry tells me. Well, its a 1,5 hours ride when doing it alone, 3 hours when you join the group. Not to mention the procedure at the Oman-border which can take another hour easily. I think, I am not in.
Klaus tells me his gearbox is broken, he will get back home and then having breakfast at the “Mariott Courtyard”. I like this idea and Fritz, a hard working guy in his own garage, will join us as well.
At breakfast we are talking about family, friends, Harleys. And about Dubai. Fritz is living in a gated community he tells us. He liked to live there for the last 4 years, but now things changed. The rental prices are reduced. His villa was AED 330.000 per year. Everything was fine. Nice people, fancy cars in the Neighborhood. Meanwhile you can get the villa for 160.000 we learn from him. Now all the normal people move into the community. Huge families, a lot of noise, children playing on the road. And a lot of Corollas and Sunnys. Dubai really has changed, he says. He wants to leave back home as soon as possible. Buying a farm in the mountains. Get rid of all this. I tell him that cities need this Melange, it adds quality to live. And especially Dubai needs it.
Its 11.00 am. Breakfast is finished. “Are you in next Friday ?” “Most probably yes” Klaus says and Fritz will join us as well. Hopefully its not Khasab, its really to far for a Friday ride.
