Having been out of the UAE for a clear one year, my business registration there, and the visa that came with it was nigh expired. The Economic Zone in which I registered Global Analytics Consulting advised that I need to get into the country before full expiry otherwise the visa and business registration may be cancelled in the system. That got me into a flap trying to organize tickets and everything else that goes with traveling these days. Traveling anywhere these days feels bizarre, given the depression being marketed at home. Anyhow, I had moved my company from the UK to UAE effectively in 2012, after 6 tough years in the UK. The expenses and the taxes, the multiple layers of regulation, and the fact that no matter how hard you tried, you may not get a single business from within the UK made us flee. I couldn’t even totally extricate from the UK until 2014. Depressing place to do business. I had been hearing about Dubai, UAE and one day I asked my UK staff, Syed to get us cheap tickets to see what it was like. What I saw was not the ‘Onitsha market’ that some Nigerians said Dubai was. I reckon many get to Al Sabhka in Deira to buy cheap articles and believe that is the end of the UAE. The real country is however limitlessly inspiring.