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