Colours of the UAE

Flag Fort, Al Taiba, Fujairah, UAE

I have my hands full! Work, personal stuff… And it’s already the end of November, what the heck!

Still haven’t got time to look thru all those photos in the phones, and dunno what to write, so I’m gonna do another quickie post. UAE’s national day is at the end of the week (2nd Dec), and it’ll be another fabulous long weekend, yay! It’s the UAE’s 50th birthday, so here’s to a glorious future for this tolerant and progressive thinking country. God bless the UAE! Love live the UAE!

Here’re some photos of how the National Day is celebrated in the UAE (and some photos of the UAE’s flag in general, ahem).


National Day performance, Mirdif City Centre, Dubai, Dec 2016


Shopping for National Day clothes, Lulu Hypermarket, Al Barsha, Dubai, Nov 2017 – Every year there are celebrations in the school where the kids have to wear UAE themed clothes and stuff


The kids and Camel-Man, Arabian Centre, Dubai, National Day, 2017


National Day 2018, Mirdif City Centre




More photos of the Flage (sic) Fort in Al Taiba, Fujairah, UAE, Jan 2021 – This place is signposted as ‘Flage’ Fort on the main road connecting Masafi to Dibba. I guess Flage means Flag??


The Flage Fort is also a lodge - with a mural of Sheikh Zayed, the founder of the UAE, painted on the wall


A flag flying at the adjoining Al Taiba Haritage (sic) Museum, Fujairah, a free entry private museum, set up by a generous local


Yours truly, at the Falaj Al Mualla Fort, Umm Al Quwain, UAE, Jan 2021


A lone flag flying high on the watch tower of the fort at Falaj Al Mualla, UAQ – This is a little visited museum/ fort. When we came, it was locked and the watchman opened it just for us. We had the entire museum to ourselves!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY PEOPLE OF THE UAE!