The Golden Bentley

Here's a piece I did for From Our Own Correspondent on BBC radio and for BBC Online. It's about my ride in a $500,000 car with a Somali millionaire in Dubai. Here's the car:




You can listen to the BBC radio piece here: The Golden Bentley

You can read the BBC Online story here: The Golden Bentley online


Somali merchants at the port


 Paint waiting to be taken by dhow to Mogadishu


 Somali women's clothes for sale in Dubai souk


 T-shirt for sale in Dubai souk

  
Entrance to the gold souk


 The interview with the Bentley owner


 The Bentley


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