{"id":4942,"date":"2026-06-04T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:22:37","slug":"driving-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/driving-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter how much someone tells you how a particular experience will be, it is not until you experience first hand that you &#8216;really&#8217; understand. This was my experience with driving in Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly I had to contend with the left hand drive phenomenon. It felt not only like I was driving a sidecar motorbike but also I felt like the car was going to topple over. Years of looking right, then left, then right again is a bad habit to overcome. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marktreadwell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Treadwell,<\/a> international guru on how the brain learns, says we can retrain our brain but I&#8217;m not sure he has driven in Dubai for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second phenomenon is the unexplained ability of the Dubai traffic to fit four lanes of traffic into three. A 15 km route to work in the morning takes around 25 minutes however, the return journey in the afternoon can take up to hour and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jake-madden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_20140910_181151.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jake-madden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img_20140910_181151.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_20140910_181151\" class=\"wp-image-123\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there is a silver lining it might just be found in my pocket. Or more precisely in the savings. My first tank of petrol (66 litres) only cost me the equivalent of $33.00 Australian dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how much someone tells you how a particular experience will be, it is not until you experience first hand that you &#8216;really&#8217; understand. This was my experience with driving in Dubai. Firstly I had to contend with the left hand drive phenomenon. It felt not only like I was driving a sidecar motorbike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[164,141,165],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-driving","tag-dubai","tag-traffic-jams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbp.websitedemopreview.com\/jake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}