Alexander McNabb's Dubai based blog, Fake Plastic Souks, has charted an erratic little course over the years. Like a little pea green boat, it has bobbed on the waves of opulence and the stormy seas of the global financial crisis, throwing inane commentary and half-thoughts out for the benefit of a tiny audience. This wholly irrelevant collection contains the 'best of' the first two years of posts and charts the years 2007-2009 when Dubai was transformed from a city of jaw-dropping development projects, towers and island building to the new reality of global financial crisis..