If you’re visiting via a link from the Oct. 23 eFlyer, welcome to Global Traveler’s blog! We welcome your comments. The lead story in Tuesday’s eFlyer is about the neat presentation that big Dubai developer Nakheel put together in time for the annual Cityscape conference held earlier this week in Dubai. It’s a portfolio of images of Dubai from the sky–from the days when the United Arab Emirates were brand new, and mostly desert, through slow and steady development throughout the last century, to an astonishing burst of speed put on since 2000, and finally a look at where Dubai will be in as little as three years, when all the projects currently underway will be complete. The pictures tell the story, so I’ll shut up and let them do it. In order, the images are: Dubai in 1973, Dubai in 1990: Dubai in 2000: Dubai today (2007): And finally, Dubai in the near future: Pretty amazing, isn’t it? I’m glad the developer (all photos courtesy Nakheel) put together this portfolio so that we could share. –Mary Hunt, editor, eFlyer