Blogs from Bahrain, Middle East - page 6

Had a few days in Bahrain on the way home...hot, bright and at least the photos were sharp again in the sunshine. It's certainly livlier than Abu Dhabi! Kate and I had to wear chaddors and scarves to visit the biggest mosque and our hotel was the ony place to get a drink (alcohol, anyway) in the area - and I was desperate for a drink after the antibiotic and kill Bill the amoeba pills I'd had to take - generally, it was friendly and pleasant - if a bit formal and slightly sterile... All the area we stayed in at the top of the island is built on reclaimed land, so my little dream of swimming in the 'sea' was ammended to swimming in the lagoon and we were apparently lucky to have that - ... read more

We arrived in Bahrain (small island country off the coast of Saudi Arabia) at 2am one night after a 7 hour flight (delayed again!). Flying over India, Dubai and Myanmar was great, although take off was intense amidst a thunderstorm with lightning strikes every 10 seconds for at least an hour. At 2am, walking off the plane all dazed and tired, we realized it was kinda hot. 43C in fact. Waking up the next day in our cheap hotel we looked out the window into the nearby buildings and realized: we are in the desert! White houses, flat, sandy landscape and mosques were very different sights to Asia. We hired a car our first day (spending half the time learning to drive on the right) and circum-navigated the island. Very intense! At one stage the temperature ... read more

So..... since i have been here i have not been publishing to many blogs. Despite the great responses i normally enjoy and repeated requests to write, WritE, WRITE!!!, i have not been able to sit down and type about my experience here. I could not figure out why this was such a problem until i had a conversation with my father. I realized, after our talk, that there are two things holding me back. First i realized that so many of my stories come from dialog. After i have told someone a story it is a million times easier to sit down and make my story even more granderrerererr. Without this dialog i lose the motivation to sit down and type. The other(and i think more important)reason, i will try to explain using plugs. Interested?........ then ... read more

Hello all We are just sitting here in the airport of Bahrain. We arrived last night because we could not get direct to Cairo and our flight is not delayed, oh the joys of travelling. I thought that I would take the time to write a quick little note. The blog for Nepal is written, but on my computer and very long...we had a great time. One thing that I was going to mention and haven't so far was the transportation aspects. In the game, there is a secondary contest for the team that can use the most forms of transportation. Mom and I have decided to pursue that route. So far we have travelled on a camel, donkey, elephant, car, bus, taxi, airplane, rickshaw, trishaw, wheel barrel, cable car, street car, canoe, and jeep...to name ... read more

We took a day in lieu from Bovis Lend Lease on Sunday and went off to the Grand Prix in Bahrain for the day. It was really quite a wonderful day. A big group of friends from Dubai went with us (the usual suspects - Jessie, Rod, Leanne, Steve, Sascha, Linda, Dave and I). We bought our tickets to the grand prix over the internet with a company called dream days. They were actually really good and we got a great day on the flights and grand prix tickets. We caught a plane up to Bahrain on the Sunday morning and were met at the airport by the dreamdays people who put us into a bus to the grand prix track. The only slight hitch in the day was the bus ride, as it decided to ... read more