Parisien Fata Morgana...

Nayla, a Lebanese friend of mine from Abu Dhabi, won a free trip to Paris at a raffle at work and I was fortunate enough to be ‘the chosen one’ to join her for this one week trip. It was a great change for us: while we were already fighting the heat in Abu Dhabi at about 30 degrees, the climate in Paris was windy, rainy and cold...We loved it and spent most of the week walking through the entire city...To cut a long story short, at one point we were in a museum called l’Orangerie where you can admire Monet’s full size water lilies in the daylight. This museum is situated inside a park called les Tuilleries which starts at the Louvre and takes you all the way to La Concorde. While I was looking outside the window I suddenly saw Paulo and Liwa playing in the park. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ran out of the museum to get closer. And then I could clearly see a big white Saluki looking just like Paulo playing with a Jack Russell Terrier, just like Liwa (just a big bigger)...and they were playing their favourite game: The Jack Russell would sneak up as close as he could to the saluki and then he would suddenly start running and chase the saluki who would run in big circles. I went even closer and took some pictures. Then I met the owner who told me that he had bought his saluki from a Belgium breeder and was interested to know more about the Salukis in Abu Dhabi...