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Australian diary

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

Abu Dhabi is not a place anyone should go voluntarily – which, in retrospect, made my presence there all the more bewildering. I suppose it’s okay if you’re ferried between luxury hotels in a stretch limousine, à la the appalling Sex & the City 2, but for any normal person the experience boils down to… well, boiling.

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Michael Koziol is a journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald

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