http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Bahrain/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , Bahrain en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:45:22 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:45:22 UTC Well i can't quite believe i've now been away from the UK for over a year....i left 1st October '07 and will be back in a couple of days Tuesday 21st '08....so this will be my last blogI've spent the last few weeks in Bahrain at my sisters place. It's very different from Koh Phangan of course and took me a little while to adjust. I've been used to riding around on my motorbike going off to the http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-336119.html 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 t http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Al-Muharraq/blog-323251.html Hey thereWell we arrived in Bangkok safe and sound after a 16 hour flight we did stop at Bahrain for about 4 hours first which was surreal at 5am in the morning there was a singing reindeer head in the airport belting out classic Elvis Presley songs It was even more weird when the eyes and antlers started moving as well I was staring at it for ages thinking god Irsquom truly jet laggedWhe http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-318183.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-302818.html 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 bac http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-275569.html This one will be short and quick but i thought everyone should know whats going on. We played Friday night for a chance to go to the finals. Our opponent was the only team that we had not beaten and the guys had a bad history of falling apart against them. Diego and I had talked before the match and came to the conclusion that it was going to be up to us if we were to win. The first set went t http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-274834.html Well what a good start. 36 hours into my journey and I should have been sampling the delights of Kathmandu by now.But no I've spent the last 17 hours and counting waiting for a plane in the wonderful surrounds of Bahrain airportYou can't drink unless you did what I did which was buy duty free vodka and mix it with your McDonalds Coke the food choice is basically McDonalds or next door http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-271960.html On the surface the Gulf States are a wealthy land populated by modestly dressed men and women who follow the precepts of Islam and devoutly adhere to the Koran. However underneath this veneer there writhes debauchery of a most surprising kind. The initial foray into the Gulf States was Kuwait which might just have the worldrsquos most inefficient visaonarrival system. You would surmise http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-270980.html Hello allWe 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 t http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-269152.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-264423.html So i see its been 23 days since my last blog. I wish i could say that i've been out experiencing new things and thus to busy to write. Alas the opposite has been true. Since my last blog the days have been vanishing in mundane daily habits with only a few hiccups to break the monotony. This has not been completely unhelpful though as i have been able to focus on my rehab and physical shape. S http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-264369.html First let me start with a quick note to everyone out there. Thank you all for your positive comments and notes on some of my stories. While i may not get the chance to reply to all of them I want you all to know what a joy it is when I log on and see that my blogs are well received. So thank you all and please keep the comments coming. Now without further ado.Many people have been asking me wha http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-255763.html I don't have much too interesting to say but wanted to share the photos I took in Bahrain with you. The gokarting was a blast too. Definitely the most fun I've ever had on a go kart. They were fast stupid US governing laws and they didn't care if you bumped each other or the wall. Which wasn't really even a wall just tires oBahrain seems to be in a transitional state right now. There is http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-253708.html When coming to Bahrain I thought that I was going to be exposed to mainly middle east and muslim culture. I was wong There are many other cultures here in Bahrain and I had my first encounter with a traditional south Indian experience today. Just a word of warning this story does contain nudity so please if there are children present they may need to leave the room. It all started when I to http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-251606.html I knew it had been a long time since I last blogged but I didn't think it had quite been 46 days...oops I'd like to cook up some story about how I had not a single spare moment but that just wouldn't be truthful. I have been occupied but I must admit I could have taken an hour and updated you all. I've been really poor at even responding to emails these past couple weeks. Take it as a test http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-251497.html I have been adjusting slowly and steadily for the past few weeks. After some disputes about my contract I am officially part of the Busiateen Volleyball Club. I received my first payment and a car a few days ago and have been enjoying both as much as i can. I have also been learning alot about the culture here and am realizing how different it really is from what im used to. There are little c http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-244807.html I went to bahrain recently for work purposes. Specifically I was there to provide sustainability advice in a masterplanning competition that my company is running for a new exclusive resort out there. It was quite a fun trip except for the fact that it was complelty and utterly freezing cold. So cold in fact that I was shaking in the meeting room that we were sitting in from the cold. The present http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-244452.html Who ever said Nothing in life is certain must have been a professional volleyball player. This perspective could not be more true for me. Since November I thought i was going to play in places like Greece or Poland at one point I was considering a job in Iran I was even hours away from getting on a plane to Italy and soon after had a chance to go to the Canary Islands. Of all these places a http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-239292.html Well. I have been here near on three weeks now. Settled in pretty well. Know enough of my job to get by day to day without direct supervision. The guys throw me a curly one every now and then but on the whole I am getting the hang of what I am to do. the new ship comes in in a few days so we are ramping up to introduce the crew to the wonders of trying to get things done in this environment. I hav http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-222627.html Jaejajaeja.Tad var jolaskraut og arabar sem toku a moti mer i Manama hofudborg Bahrain. Tad var pinu shock ad koma i tessa svakalegu troadu og riku oliufursta eyju beint fra Kathmandu.Eg var engan veginn tilbuinn ad fara fra Nepal tvi eg vard astfangin af landi og tjod. Ferdin nidur Karnali var alveg frabaer og gekk klakklaust fyrir sig. Eftir siglinguna sloppudum vid af i tjodgardinum Bardia adu http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-222101.html Hey all. Well finally thought I would put fingers to keyboard and give an update as to what's been going on. I am now in Bahrain after a week in Kuwait doing the last of my orientation I have been down here for about two weeks now. Really enjoying it. It's a hell of an interesting place and though I can honestly say I wasn't interested in the Arabic culture that has changed pretty quick. Though http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-221215.html So we're still waiting to hear when Peter's interview is. Hopefully it's going to be on Tuesday afternoon and we're both fairly sure that it'll just be the one interview as he's going to be seeing AbdulHaq as he's over from Bahrain. Normally I think it would have been that Peter would have been interviewed by MAL and maybe AWC and then had a vidcon with the Bahrain office but as AHM is here. http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-216333.html How exciting. On the third day of her new job Chelle was taken off to Bahrain by her new company Bovis Lend Lease. For those who have not caught up on the most sorry saga Chelle had a very very bad experience at Turner and Townsend the company she moved over to Dubai to start work with and decided that the best thing to do would be to look for a different opportunity in the region. Basically http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-207852.html Gotcha You all thought I'd be in Delhi by now recovering from my jetlag huh The flight from Paris to Bahrein had a delay of about 5 hours and by the time we got to Bahrein my flight to Delhi had already lifted off. The Gulf Air Customer Service people had however promised that the flight would have to wait for us... ah well it's part of the deal I have 9 months to go. A day more or less i http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-199907.html I recently got out of the Marines and wanted to go back over to Bahrain and visit my buddies I were stationed with in Bahrain we were all stationed here in the Middle East along with thousands more U.S. GI's. These photos are of my most recent trip to Manama Bahrain. http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-196030.html BahrainOut of all my travelblog entries the Bahraini experience is so far my only business trip therefore it couldnrsquot be as fun and enjoyable as my holidaysrsquo travelling. Nevertheless I feel impelled to write some notes about this distinctive Kingdom. If you are travelling to the Middle East during the summer months except the worst in terms of heat. The first thing you will notice up http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-194382.html So my last trip before leaving Kuwait this year was to Bahrain... The home of Michael Jackson a grand prix track which takes up half the island and many far eastern ladies of the night..... I can't remember so much of the weekend. I didn't even sleep at the hotel I booked a room in a proper UK style random night. I think the club we ended up in was called F1 and had a Phillipino thrash metal b http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/Manama/blog-162298.html Down the causeway to Saudi ArabianbspMiddle East raquonbspBahrain By rickmooreMay 16th 2007David Moore Bahrain is an archipelago of some 36 islands with a good efficient airport where women can actually drive and show their hair just a few km across the causeway from Saudi Arabia. But like Saudi people come from all over the world to work. Saudis come here as well but to shop and party http://www.travelblog.org//Middle-East/Bahrain/blog-159090.html