Me Turning Arab

I did not spend very long in Bahrain, due to Arab management and a useless Irish agency. 

What can I say about the place, well its hot, very modern and still a lot of building going on, a lot of Asian people mostly from India work on the building sites dotted around the main areas, with very little or no health and safety. I don’t know how they coped with the heat or conditions but they did, after a fire in one of the workers accommodations with several people being killed, and many being taken to hospital, the King of Bahrain made a visit to the survivors and did what he could to help, which showed the humanitarian side of the Arab World

I found the local people both in work and out very welcoming and hospitable, of course except the taxi drivers

Bahrain is a shoppers paradise, anything you wanted to buy you could, even fish and chips! You can get cod abet more expensive, but they had a local fish called hammer (sp?) which was very much like cod. The supermarkets even had items from Iceland frozen food in the UK. Best rump from New Zealand was about £2 a lb, but I did find new potatoes and tomatoes from Holland expensive. Other shops you could buy anything you wanted, but I did find electronic stuff expensive.

The photo at the top was me outside one of the shopping malls, now I caused total mayhem on this day, people were coming up chatting to me, taking my photo, waving out of cars, now I am not sure if it was my Arab headgear or they mistook me for Brad Pitt

I found the bars very plastic, with some of the bands on very good, the price of food and drink was fine with cigs at duty free prices. At the weekend which was Thursday / Friday the place was invaded by Saudi's you could not get a room at the weekend, some even slept in the cars by the beach, not that they came for the drink or women of course, they must have come to play ping pong, get the fresh air of the sea and eat fish and chips, I think we would all drive through the desert for that

There is a big US naval base in Bahrain and a lot of ex pats have moved in so it has a very International feel to the place

Livingroom - Dinner

Kitchin

Bedroom

Fish & Chip shop

Bahrain City from my Window

The Hotel on a Building Site, No its not Spain!

The Grand Mosque

A big Fountain that only worked now & then

Sunset over Bahrain