As I have the biggest mosque in Bahrain visible out of my hotel window and I do not believe I have ever before been in to one it seemed a good idea to do a visit during one of my days off. The whole place is very tourist friendly and they were more than happy to answer questions and let you go wherever you wished. I have already posted some pictures on Facebook and so here is a short video of my visit.
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Saturday, 25 April 2009
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Seef Mall
Being between shifts I had time to get down to one of the massive malls in Manama, called City Centre it is about 5 times as big as West Quay in Southampton. As if they did not have enough shops already - and most of them are empty - there was a story in the news today that there will be a Waitrose store opening up in Bahrain soon.
Anyway have a look at a short vid I put together to give you some idea what it is like. Despite the vast number of shops I only found the Carrefour to have anything that I wanted and that happened to be a French loaf!
Anyway have a look at a short vid I put together to give you some idea what it is like. Despite the vast number of shops I only found the Carrefour to have anything that I wanted and that happened to be a French loaf!
Monday, 23 March 2009
Motorbiking in Bahrain
First of all, you would certainly not get me on two wheels of any form on the roads out here - driving on 4 is definitely exciting enough. It is the lack of signals, awareness or ability combined with an Arab view of any disasters being 'obviously' unavoidable as 'the will of Allah' that make driving such a high intensity task.
Nonetheless you do see a few bikes on the road and these vary between the classic pizza delivery boys through to the most powerful and flashy machines you can find. These of course have to be ridden at maximum speed. It is again a particularly Arab thing to be ostentatious in all possible ways to display your wealth, power or strength - hence ridiculous buildings, bright yellow MASSIVE Humvee cars with huge chrome wheels and watches which must have copious amounts on diamonds on display.
The video below shows a particularly good example of the sort of bling I'm talking about as well as a rather extraordinary 'sand bike' which looks lethal to ride on and two kids chopper style bikes all found in the one bike shop I have identified in Bahrain which is just around the back of the hotel.
Nonetheless you do see a few bikes on the road and these vary between the classic pizza delivery boys through to the most powerful and flashy machines you can find. These of course have to be ridden at maximum speed. It is again a particularly Arab thing to be ostentatious in all possible ways to display your wealth, power or strength - hence ridiculous buildings, bright yellow MASSIVE Humvee cars with huge chrome wheels and watches which must have copious amounts on diamonds on display.
The video below shows a particularly good example of the sort of bling I'm talking about as well as a rather extraordinary 'sand bike' which looks lethal to ride on and two kids chopper style bikes all found in the one bike shop I have identified in Bahrain which is just around the back of the hotel.
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