After six years in Kuwait, I finally make it to Bahrain! Why did I want to go to Bahrain? Hubby goes there a lot on business, so I hear a lot about Bahrain and I’d never been there before, and now, we have friends there. I guess they are good enough reasons. Plus there was one more – they have a Hermès store there! *Chuckle*
Anyway, hubby kept saying to me – there’s nothing in Bahrain – a lot of Saudis go there to party and there are a lot of hookers! There. I said it. But well, I needed to add that tiny little country to my list didn’t I? So he agreed we’d make a trip there to visit our friends Tosin and Andrew over the new year weekend. So here we are…
The ride in from the airport was impressive all the way. Especially the 7-series ride in the Hotel pickup car! Clean streets. Palm-lined expressway. I was ooohing and aaaahing.
In the end I realised it was the same as driving into Kuwait from the airport. The landscape (or cityscape, more like) was also the same as in any middle-eastern city I’ve been in so far – modern buildings and skyscrapers scattered around…interspersed with “deserty” open spaces….next to it, a near delapidated building…rubble here and there, like it was still under construction. It seems to be a landmark feature of middle-eastern cities. Believe me its the same EVEN in Dubai.
Hello Bahrain!
