Having two weeks worth of vacation, I thought I would be spending in the Carribean, suddenly unspoken for, I got a ticket to Bahrain to visit Leah, and here I am now. Listening to some guy screaming his loungs out at the local mosque because the Sun just set.

Bahrain this time of year is pretty acceptable climate-wise: A nice 25 centigrade and sunny... and guess who forgot to bring his sun glasses. Oh well. Already got to work a bit on my tan and I am trying to jump-start my would-be carreer as a jogger at the gym, which is free for all at the compound. (though I haven't seen anybody else there)

Other than that, you can tell this place is heavily influenced by American Culture. Malls everywhere, big cars that go half a mile to the gallon - driven by lunatics btw. And then of course the obligatory white-clad arabs with the head-thing and their black-clad wives. After a while you don't really notice that fact, and actually everybody's very relaxed about .. well everything. It's not like at home, where it seems muslim women more or less are treated as beasts of burden. Here you see husbands and wives walking hand-in-hand ... with their filipino maid heaving their child(ren) behind them :o)

I'll see if I can find a way to easily extract some of the photos I've taken using my phone. Insh'Allah it wille happen sometime soon - down here that means "don't expect it to be anytime soon."