Sometimes, my heart swells with longing – such as when I first heard about the historic journey of the Spirit of Dubai, largest commercial airship currently in the skies. It doesn’t hurt that on the airships MySpace page, they’re playing a lovely version of ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ that just makes me think of lifting off in a tropical landscape and gently brushing past candy-floss clouds. sighs

The airship, which was renamed and repainted for the promotional journey from London to Dubai, commemorating the creation of the Palm landmass in Dubai, usually operates in tours in Switzerland with Skycruiser. Maybe a holiday destination for me next summer, perhaps.

sings “trouble melts like a lemon drop, high above the chimney tops…”