Palm Jumeirah
Palm Jumeirah

No, no, it's not possible it was certainly not my fault, said the fisherman, I tell you I was just following the lighthouse signals that should bring sailors and fishermen into ports safely.
Yes of course, but mister fisherman should know that since 2001 we are building in this area. Yes, we are building three big palm trees. (On the phone): “Everything is in order, mister Trump”.
This would explain the unfortunate fisherman why he had to go around all these curves - the pieces of land that suddenly emerged from the water. He was shocked though, as he did not understand why should palm trees be in the water and why did the lighthouse deliberately deceive him.
Mister fisherman, we are building three islands in form of palm trees, with a trunk, fronds and a crescent around them acting as a water-breaker. Palm Jumeirah with 17 fronds is the smallest. Palm Jebel Ali has 17 fronds too but is slightly bigger. The biggest is Palm Diera with no less than 41 fronds. The lighthouse was the light of the Lighthouse Hotel on Palm Jumeirah. (On the phone): “Hilton will most certainly be provided with most luxurious space on the Riva”.
What now, a hotel that imitates a lighthouse, unheard off! Islands in the shape of palm trees! Palm tree is vertical and it is a tree! Why would somebody lose time to make it big and horizontal?
On the islands there will be luxurious hotels and villas; luxurious apartments; water-front houses; restaurants; clubs; entertainment facilities; sports facilities; shopping malls; cinema halls… In short, we will take care of the body and soul of our visitors.
The fisherman liked the idea and began inquiring how he could buy one of the nice water-front houses.
The chief of the building site, in which the sailor accidentally bumped in not long ago, smiled. You see, we are constructing these islands to increase the tourism and the flow of capital into our always sunny country which will bring us prosperity. This is why we are selling land and houses to the rich, you understand? The land is tax free and every buyer has exclusive rights over his property and can do what he wants with it.
Ooo, the sailor pretended to be pleased, although he could not understand how prosperity will come to him. He was not sure that it would even make it for the islands. It was getting late, the sun was high in the sky, and the machines on the building site were noisy, preventing him from thinking. It is better if I go home, they are expecting me and I have to put the fish on ice. Good bye.
Good bye and visit us when the islands are finished.
The fisherman really came back but he was not wearing the right clothes to get on the islands and he also did not possess the permit to work on them. Anyway, I prefer the vertical palms, he thought to himself.