Country Info
- Manama
- Capital
- Bahraini Dinar (BHD)
- Currency
- 645,361
- Population
- BH
- Country Code
Manama Slideshow
Manama
Travel Blogs from Manama, Bahrain
Tired with a little bit of iced tea
So for the past two days I have been traveling. On thursday the 10th of june I left my house in Redwood city at 5am. I arrived in Manama at 9:15 pm on the 11th of June. I had two stops one at JFK in New York and the other at Schipol in Amsterdam. I tried ...
Taxi to Manama
Had a good taxi ride to Manama. It only took 1 hour as immigration control on the causeway was not backed up as it sometimes can be. I've been told to allow 5 hours before flight in case immigration is backed up. Was dropped off at the ...
Limbo- otherwise known as the Kingdom of Bahrain
We thought it was smooth sailing once we caught the flight out of Cairo on the 17th. With a 4 or 5 hour layover in Bahrain we took the time ro explore the duty free shops and try all the free beauty products. In a very unlikely turn of events, we ran ...
Bahrain
... Bahrain airport after a 9 hour flight from Frankfurt. I got a rental car for the month and headed out on to the streets of Bahrain. The drivers in this city are insane (terrible). My hotel was only a few minutes from the hotel luckily. Later I would find ...
home sweet home!
Hey everyone, Today is Saturday the 6th. Today Derrik and I got our stuff delivered to us!!!! I am so excited. I spent this morning unpacking the boxes and organizing the apartment. It looks much better now. I got all the cookbooks set up, my skillets ...
The long journey that lies ahead of me
Well, it's 11 o' clock in the morning on wednesday the 9th of June and I have to get up at 4 am tomorrow. This is the first of many blogs. There are so many feelings and emotions swirling around inside me. My stomach feels like it's filled with lead, and ...
Cocktail Party
... Indian classical dance evening at the Hilton. The ballroom there was mostly full of Indians and it was most entertaining. Back at our hotel, drinking cocktails in the bar, Mike worked out that for his first year in Bahrain he would be earning £45,000. ...
1st day of work
So I woke up at 7am to get to breakfast at 7:30 (free in our hotel). I met up with a couple of the guys who were staying at my hotel. We had lunch then hopped in our cars to head to work. We went to a wearhouse outside of base that we rent to keep our ...
Chicken fingers
Hi everyone! I think it has been a while since I wrote my last blog so I thought I would say Hi again. Today is Saturday! Derrik has duty this weekend. Luckily he did not have to fly yesterday but he does today till later this evening. I am spending the ...
Off to the Middle East
... through and there was Paullie to greet us with 2 red roses - 1 for each of us. Lovely boy! We've arrived in Bahrain right in the middle of Ramadam. Buggery Bullox. So most places are closed after 1pm in the arvo, and we shouldn't ...
Jul 07, 2010
Wednesday in Bahrain
... a full tank of gas that cost me BD 3 (about 8 USD). Last night, we went to a dinner with Michael's coworkers at Bahrain's best Italian restaurant, Oliveto's. As with a lot of things in Bahrain, the restaurant was not much to look at from the ...
Business And Pleasure...at Elite Suites Hotel..!
... alcoholic hotel is Located at the heart of Manama ,and is perfectly placed in the Seef District, at a 5 minute drive from Bahrain International Exhibition Centre and also from the city's main business and financial districts. There are also a number ...
Back to bahrain to live
Barbar..yet another compound... then on to Budaiaya village opp Bani Jamra (bani ...
My Home in Bahrain
It was time to leave our luxury hotel. Tim and Claire called to give us a lift to our new home. Then visiting Jawads and Ashrafs, the two big stores outside town, we spent an amazing amount of money on foodstuffs. Mike opened up the Moet and Chandon to ...
Life at the Sheraton
... friends of the heart, like those I had left behind, meant more to me than any amount of money or luxuries. I felt being in Bahrain could actually be a test, for I knew I had to learn to be spiritually whole wherever and whatever situation I was in. And ...
Bargining with the locals, government style
The next day I went down to the local civilian boat place to rent a barge to set up all of our underwater equipment. look how shitty it looks: http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm291/petepaccione/IMG_0189.jpg shitty2 (guy im with on the right): ...
How much can you see in one day Bahrain ...
... can see almost everything. Rent a car and drive on. I have stayed two nights, coming from Doha and leaving for Doha. Hotels in Bahrain are much cheaper than in Qatar, so I decided to stay overnight hier twice, but only one day sightseeing. Please do me a ...
Country #10 - Port #12
This was a special time since I have been on my A-Team. I was staying with a group of 5 people off the ship to help in a school with ...
Bahrain
Brief visit with family in this middle-eastern country. Similar to (and just north of) Dubai, Bahrain is very western and obviously affluent. With just over 700K population, 1/2 are ex-pats. Strange ...
Hanging out with Claire
... she was much younger. She was sensitive, like me, though came across as so confident and efficient. When she first came to Bahrain she found it so difficult that she had to start seeing a psychiatrist, and the problem had begun from one incident when ...
The long haul
... to Portland. Portland to Dulles. Dulles to Kuwait City (the loooong leg, 12 hrs). Then the puddlejumper from Kuwait city to Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Though journey took a total of almost 24 hours (3am to 5:30am PST), it wasn't all that bad. I think ...
A short break to Bahrain
... ; ; Go to the airport straight away after office on Thursday; take the mid afternoon flight to Bahrain · ; Have an easy and lazy afternoon in the Hotel ...
Border Crossings
... lot---lots of running head on into cars, who would reverse and find another route. Lots more dodging and weaving throughout Manama (main city of Bahrain)-was glad we were in a big Chevy Caprice (didn't know they still made those) and that my seat belt ...
Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!
... a huge island/city (similar to the Palm Tree in Dubai). Very cool and VERY EXY! From there we went to the Bahrain International Raceway, which will be hosting the V8 supercar series in November. What a facility! We were even taken to the 8th ...
Bahrain Day #3 -- Touring the Island
... the compound, so the guard raised the gate and directed me to make a U-turn. What a disappointment. I had seen Durrat al-Bahrain advertised as a “resort” and figured it would be open to the public and there would be some restaurants. More so, ...