Choc ice

There's a new contender for the title of "coldest place in Dubai" - and it's not the Ski Dome. The cinema at Ibn Battuta is positively arctic (much colder than the Metropolitan on Sheikh Zayed Road); I swear my whole system shut down about 45 minutes into a night showing of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

And after watching Tim Burton's scenes of the first ever totally chocolate palace in the world, I reckon it's only a matter of time before they build it in Dubailand.