Frankie was too tall this summer to walk beneath the arbor as she had always done before.

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The kinds of services provided by local authorities might not be glamorous, but if 1.5 million workers walk out this summer, we will all notice.

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Summer or winter, firefighters walk into dark passageways in burning buildings, burdened by heavy fireproof coats and pants, air bottles strapped to backs, faces masked and vision tunneled, each in a private world.

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Come in summer -- for a day walk, week walk or to finish the whole lot (about eight weeks) -- and you might see the benign fin of a basking shark cruise by the shore.

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But how many of Dubai's 1.6m people will give up their 1m air-conditioned cars to walk even short distances in the punishing summer heat?

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On nice summer days, me and a good friend of mine named Heather would walk the sprawling weed-free lawn holding hands, dressed to the nines in our JC Penny tour guide income finest, and strolled towards the Cliff Walk over looking the Atlantic.

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Opposite the entrance to the baths is a walk up Gellert Hill, through a park where you can hear nightingales in early summer.

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In fact, in the summer of 2012, the CDC reported that more Americans were walking for exercise, with those who walk being nearly 3 times more likely to meet the recommended level of physical activity.

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