Dubai Water Canal - Tolerance bridge

 This is Tolerance Bridge at the Dubai Water Canal.

I spent a week in the UK in October 2016, before I left the supports were in place, on my return the bridge was up as it is now. 
The Bridge has a 180’ high arch supporting a 690’ long and 20’ wide meandering pedestrian and cycling path below. 
The bridge was inaugurated by Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak, Minister of State for Tolerance on International Day of Tolerance 2017, which falls on November 16th each year.

View of the area, from Safa Park, after the canal was dug, but before it was filled with water. Construction started in 2014.

Tolerance Bridge supports October 2016

View of Tolerance Bridge from Safa Park

Since the opening of the footbridges across the canal, work has then started on the building of new accommodation, restaurants and hotels along the newly created water ways.

November 2016

April 2017

March 2019

You can read/see more photos of construction projects in Dubai and around the world that I've been documenting by clicking on the links below:

 Dubai Bluewater Islands and Dubai Eye. Man made island a 210m high Big Wheel
 Dubai Dubai Marina - Reflections
 Dubai Dubai Frame. A window between the Old and New Dubai and a 150m high glass floor.

 Dubai Dubai Marina 3 years apart.

 Dubai Dubai Water Canal Bridge Construction and reconfiguration of roads

 Dubai New Metro Line for Expo 2020
USA Arizona and Nevada Hoover Dam 2002 - 2010
 Dubai Dubai Opera House What a difference a year makes
 Dubai Unfinished buildings. The Pentominium
UK Coventry Mixing the old and the new. Coventry Catherdral
 Dubai New Dubai Metro Station 
 Dubai The new extension of the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa 
 Dubai Hotel fire After the Address fire 
 Dubai Unusual designs The Opus Building
 Dubai District Cooling. Keeping the desert cool.
 Dubai Can I visit the Burj Al Arab
 Dubai The Almas Tower
 Dubai The Cayan Tower
Canada Toronto The CN Tower
USA Nevada The Paris Hotel 
 Dubai Ibn Battuta Gate
 Dubai The World's Tallest Tower
UK & UAE Dubai and Wales Al Fahidi Fort and Chepstow Castle 
 Dubai New Metro Station in Al Furjan 
 Dubai Ski Dubai
South Africa Life in a township
Austria Ski Jump 
 Dubai Green Plant Bio Dome 
 Dubai Update on the Metro Station
 Dubai My view from the balcony changed in 8 months
Greece Just how instagramable is it?
 Dubai Before and After. 3 months out of Dubai
 Dubai Building a boat in the sky
South Africa An African Sunset
South Africa Building with boxes Charity work in South Africa
 Dubai What are they building now? World Trade Centre
UK Monmouth Building work in South Wales
 Dubai The cladding is going on, on the metro station
 Dubai They're building on the beaches in Dubai
Hong Kong Building with Bamboo
Egypt Cairo Probably the largest construction project in the world. The Pyramids
South Africa Christmas gift giving in a South African township
South Africa A sense of community in South African Townships
 Dubai Al Furjan Construction Project

Dubai Canvas 3D Art Festival at City Walk

Brand Dubai is the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office, who have created a platform for some of the world's leading 3D artists who have been showcasing their 3D art at the Dubai Canvas 3D Art Festival in City Walk.

I visited twice, once as they were setting up and again to see the finished art work.

You can see the size of the canvas if you look carefully at the artists at work.

Let me know which one is your favourite, I'm hard pressed to decide.

Week 23 - One Daily Positive, Project 366 and SnapHappyBritMums

IT'S TOO HOT. IT'S RAMADAN. IT'S SUMMER IN DUBAI.

I'm still getting to grips with calling the cat 'he' instead of 'she' after 4 years. Ramadan has started and working in an Arabic school during this time is challenging, but more about that next week. I've had a splitting headache all week with not being able to access water freely at work and the heat also.

Apart from work, I've not left the house all week. I stop at the shops on the way home, but once I'm home I don't go back out again. I was invited to a colleagues house for a coffee, which I enjoyed before my appointment Wednesday at the nail bar. It might sound like it's not worth writing about, but I've been in the job since December and this is the first invite I've had.



On the blog this week:

#MySundayPhoto       The new canal and diverting a 16 lane highway
#AnimalTales             The cat is seriously overweight and is no longer a she
#HDYGG                   Our home in South Africa
#PoCoLo                    Me and my abaya
#PhotalifeB_W           My 1st Birthday

Sunday Day 157 #OneDailyPositive #Project366 #snapchat #june2016 #SnapHappyBritMums that's it folks, my friends on snapchat. I give you Steve, my nephew and @lizicave92 my niece.

Monday Day 158 #OneDailyPositive #Project366 #children #june2016 #SnapHappyBritMums Me and my Abaya, over on the blog today, given to me by one of the children (parent) who had their tailor make it in Jordan and sent over to Dubai for me to wear during #ramadan2016

Tuesday Day 159 #OneDailyPositive #Project366 #makeup #june2016 #SnapHappyBritMums I had to put my pens in the freezer today because the ink was colourless due to the heat and now keeping my make up in the fridge to keep it from melting.

Wednesday Day 160 #OneDailyPositive #Project366 #flowers #june2016 #SnapHappyBritMums couldn't think of a better reason to buy myself flowers today, other than it fitted today's photo prompt.

Thursday Day 161 #OneDailyPositive #Project366 #idea #june2016 #SnapHappyBritMums any plans and ideas I had for Thursday evening were put on hold due to a migraine caused by lack of fluids all week and the heat #Ramadan

Friday Day 162 #onedailypositive #project366 #family#june2016 #snaphappybritmums apart from Peter, this is my family, all the humans live in the UK some 3000 miles away :-(

Saturday Day 163 #onedailypositive #project366 #drive#june2016 #snaphappybritmums driving onto the beach in Dubai

Week 75 - My Sunday Photo - Dubai Canal

They've opened the new road/bridge at Al Wasl on Friday this week. This work has taken 18 months to complete ready for the new canal to be dug out, linking the Creek to the Arabian Gulf at the cost of 802 million Dhs. 

They've also had to raise a 16 lane highway the Sheik Zayed Road which will be completed in July and the Jumeriah Beach Road which is a 4 lane highway. The cost of rebuilding these roads is 384 million Dhs.

Both the Al Wasl Road and Jumeriah Beach Road will become one way systems, with traffic on the Al Wasl Road flowing towards the Burj Al Arab (the direction of the camera)

I've been documenting the work since we arrived in December 2014 and once the project is complete I'll post the photographs showing the 'before' 'during' and 'after'

Week 74 - My Sunday Photo -Burj Khalifa

Taken from the 10th floor car park at The Dubai Mall on Friday. We arrived at 4.30pm and left at 9.30pm.

Week 18 - One daily Positive - Project 366 - SnapHappyBritMums

Peter was away again this week, in Turkey. It's only a 4 day working week with Thursday being Isra and Mi'raj, marking Prophet Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascent into heaven, around 621. Most people go away for the long weekend, I did think about joining Peter in Turkey for a long weekend, but as it's a 5 hour flight each way, I decided 3 days was pushing it and it wouldn't be that relaxing, plus the cost of boarding the cat and dog. He came home on Friday and is heading off to Kenya on Sunday, sorry folks, next week's post doesn't look like it's going to be positive either.

On the blog this week.
#MySundayPhoto Bob at Al Qudra Lakes
#PoCoLo I've had enough of being an expat I just want to go home now
#HDYGG Growing vegetables in the desert.
#Photalife This week's theme is WALK.
There was no #AnimalTales this week due to the host having a death in the family.

Having joined back in with the photo prompts, there are two pictures for Sunday with it being the 1st of May (how did that happen so quickly?) and then normal service is resumed.

Sunday Day 122 #onedailypositive #project366 a trip to the garden centre on the way home this evening and some cloud cover, so I was able to spend an hour in the garden. #gardening #dubai #desert #plants #flowers

#fashion #snaphappybritmums #may #photooftheday I need to wear practical clothing for teaching 4 year olds, lightweight as temps in #Dubaiare currently in the mid 30s and as I teach in an Arabic school I'm required to cover myself top to toe and neck to wrist. Fashion does not enter the equation when it comes to getting dressed for work, considering buying an #abaya.

Monday Day 123 #onedailypositive #project366 #fun #snaphappybritmums I decided to start doing the photo prompts again, but only one and was able to catch up with March and April. I go to work, I make dinner, I work in the evening and go to bed early. It's not a lot of fun. I also realised that my daily photos were rather boring during the week with either a picture of my dinner, my work or one of the pets. Today is no different other than Peter being away and instead of work I decided to clean the house. Am on my way to bed shortly and the only photo I'd taken was of the cat on the wall. There was a huge commotion outside with Bob who was just sitting their barking at her. He was having fun barking and she was having fun tormenting him.

Tuesday Day 124 #onedailypositive #project366 #rest #may#snaphappybritmums eating dinner, watching comedy shows on YouTube and drinking tea after a long and hot day at work. This colouring book has been one of the most stressful projects I've taken on and certainly not relaxing as the title claims.

Wednesday Day 125 #onedailypositive #project366 #balloon#may #snaphappybritmums how my day was spent, teaching science to 100 4 year olds. As well as inflating balloons using vinegar and bicarb of soda and making volcanoes, we also saw what happened when you drop mentos in a coke bottle. I haven't had this much fun in ages.

Thursday Day 126 #onedailypositive #project366 #eyes#snaphappybritmums #may in an effort to stay awake today, I decided to leave the house where sleep comes easily and have lunch at The Creek, then I rather foolishly decided to go the beach for an ice cream, I've parked two blocks away, I've arrived late lugging unused beach towels, wearing my swim suit under my clothes was a waste of time and my eyes were too big for my belly and I couldn't finish my frozen yogurt. On a positive I am wide awake and should have a proper nights sleep and get back into a proper routine soon, however I have an airport run at 4.45am

Friday Day 127 #onedailypositive #project366 #drinks #may#snaphappybritmums Peter arrived home from Turkey the early hours of this morning, he has enough time to unpack, wash, iron and repack his case before heading off to Kenya on Sunday. I've been depressed, not sleeping and lonely, but I've resisted the desire to turn to alcohol to help me sleep, despite Peter's frequent visits to Duty Free. On a positive, which I'm digging deep for, Peter did the food shop so I've got some decent food in for next week in his absence.

Saturday Day 128 #onedailypositive #project366 #photography #may#snaphappybritmums where I'm currently standing will be the new canal in Dubai linking the Creek to the Arabian Gulf. In order for them to dig the canal at the cost of Dhs 802 million, they had to raise a 16 lane highway#sheikzayedroad and #AlWasl and #jumeriah #beach roads Dhs 384 million, both 4 lane roads which will become a clockwise one way system. The work started not long after we moved here and I've been taking photos to plot the progress as part of a photography project. #dubaicanal #dubaicreek @uaeproject @dubaiwatercanal #myuae #mydubai #myview@rta_dubai #dubailife #dubai #construction #safapark