... A desktop, a beloved computer that knows so much about you and your habits, dear colleagues, and even wild fish, darkly cutting the water of an office aquarium, and finally, having collected your suitcases, go on a long-awaited vacation ("To the aunt, to the aunt , off the beaten path, to Saratov ... "), I want to say a few words to those who stay here in the summer ...
For starters, about why they are lucky. Firstly, you don’t have to spend crazy money on a ticket, although if you are planning, for example, to Jordan, you can fly there for absolutely ridiculous money with the planes of the new Dubai-based flydubai carrier. It is a pity that our hometowns are a little further than the possessions of King Abdullah II. But, they say, the flights of this company to major ports of the CIS are just around the corner. Let's wait. Secondly, there is the opportunity to buy everything you need, fashionable and branded for yourself, for home, for family at such reduced prices that you never dreamed of during the traditional festival “Dubai Summer Surprises”. Well, and of course, I do not want to repeat myself again, to win a bunch of necessary and not especially prizes and gifts, which pleasantly diversifies shopping. Thirdly, it will be possible to treat yourself to previously inaccessible procedures in the leading spa centers of the city, included in the festival race and offering excellent packages of relaxing, tonic and wellness treatments for the whole family. Without a hit on the budget! Fourth, whatever one may say, the sea, although very warm, does not take the sun and the beach with it either. So, those who are used to getting up early can enjoy water procedures in the fresh air early in the morning, until it is too hot, and the sea air is transparent and smells of iodine. Fifth, simply because it’s stupid to leave the city, where many people have been dreaming of getting all their lives and cannot, due to a variety of circumstances. And here we live, work and sometimes we don’t even notice that the city that once hospitably welcomed us is literally becoming prettier in our eyes, assuming new forms and shapes, growing and developing at this very moment in our recent history.
Now about why you should leave for a short while, and why those who have already done this, well done. Everything is simple. It is necessary to briefly jump out of the hot Emirate haze, breathe the air of the Motherland, enjoy its forbs, meadows, forests, lakes and rivers. Go fishing with your classmates in real life, and not on the expanses of the site of the same name, visit relatives, eat mom’s pies with real berries from the forest or from the garden, and not from the supermarket, take a steam bath in a Russian bathhouse and drink a mug or two of ice ... kvass. And then come back and understand that in just two or three weeks, while you were away, Dubai again somehow elusively changed, preserving, however, the usual hospitality and sensible order at the airport, which you notice only upon arrival, having managed to visit other air ports with their services and amenities. You need to leave so that there is always the opportunity to learn everything in comparison. So, see you in Ramadan, already on the pages of the autumn issue. Yes! I almost forgot. Water the flowers and feed the fish. Until!
Sincerely, Elena Olkhovskaya
Chief Editor
