June 2016 – Ed Petrie

9 October, United Arab Emirates – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

11/10/2016

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Another early start today to so that we could have the Burj Khalifa to ourselves for an hour. If you’re wondering what that is, it’s the tallest building in the world. And when I say tallest, I mean taaaaaaaaallest. Everywhere you go in Dubai it dominates ...

8 October, United Arab Emirates – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

11/10/2016

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Woke up at 5.30am having had less than 4 hours sleep due to my eyelids feeling like they had sandpaper under them after our trip to the desert yesterday (well, Dubai is desert as well really. I guess I mean “the desert with less stuff in it”). Had a sinki ...

7 October, United Arab Emirates – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

11/10/2016

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Checked out of our Abu Dhabi hotel bright and early. There were still a fair few gents in traditional dress standing about doing nothing in particular. That’s my primary impression of the UAE so far - there’s a lot of men standing around chatting to each ...

6 October, United Arab Emirates – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

11/10/2016

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I’ve been to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates at least 6 times now… but never left the airport, as on every occasion I was on a connecting flight. So to actually be here “for real” feels quite satisfying, despite the fact that every time I looked out ...

26 September, Sri Lanka – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

26/09/2016

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So often when making this show we arrive at a hotel when it’s dark, wake up early in the morning thinking “What a nice location” and immediately leave. Yesterday morning we didn’t actually have to up wheels until late morning, meaning that I walked down t ...

24 September, Sri Lanka – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

25/09/2016

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I thought it was a bit strange that the downstairs of our new hotel is all brand new, but the upper floors all look like they’re a few decades old. That’s because when the tsunami hit here over 10 years ago the entire ground floor was submerged in water a ...

23 September, Sri Lanka – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

25/09/2016

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Pretty much every day on ‘All Over The Place’ is special in its own way, but today was a cracker as far as I was concerned. Woke up in my little bungalow just next door to the old colonial house that the rest of the crew were staying in, and after breakfa ...

22 September, Sri Lanka – ‘All Over The Place – Asia’

25/09/2016

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Up at the crack of dawn to board our big pink bus and say goodbye to Colombo as we set off on a 3 hour drive to Kegalle to film elephant poo being turned into paper. After 7 years of working on this show it didn’t even seem that strange a mission. Our ...