Radisson Blu Hotel, Kuwait
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The Beginning of Goodbye
... you be in that is SO incredibly rich that they have 15 million dollars to blow on a fireworks display??? To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of Kuwait's constitution, the government put on an hour+ long fireworks show that put us in the Guinness Book of World Records. There was even a man from New Mexico here who put himself in the record books [during the show] by being the man to hang glide for the longest time being rocketed along by fireworks that ...
Just a little messed up
Kuwait is browner and older, as in 1980's older, then I anticipated.
Everything is also just a tiny bit messed up. The buildings are in need of repair and even if they are new, the finish work leaves much to be desired. Everything just reminds me of DIY projects gone wrong; until you get to the Ikea in the mall. Then it's primary colors galore with clean ...
Kuwait - ofwel "visa issuing, hoe het niet moet"
... neen, gewoon alles opnieuw te
doen :-)
En is het de moeite waard? Ach, ik heb niet echt tijd gehad om hier es rond te kijken, mijn indruk is dat die steden hier in het Midden-Oosten allemaal op elkaar trekken: overwegend beige kleur met hier een daar een mooi nieuwe wolkenkrabber ertussen. De wegeninfrastructuur ziet er ook weer best OK uit maar autorijden is niet echt hun sterkste kant.
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It doesn't get hotter than this...
... it takes to do that...). It was spacious, and very clean, and had one of the largest showers I'd seen in a long time. That first night, I had dinner in the hotel restaurant, the Atlantis. It was a buffet (which, as many of you know, I hate...), but then I went back to my room, put on my swimsuit and went for a bit of a swim in the lap pool. Hey, at 9 pm, it was still 38C, so it was still hot, but pleasant in the water.
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Patience is a virtue
... and relatively laid back in their way of working causing the expats to work harder to get the job done.
Work isn't the only place where we experience these kind of behaviors. The "Men from the Ministry" (a light hearted reference to the BBC radio sitcom from the 1960's) are possibly worse. These locals enjoy shorter working hours and financial payments annually not to be beaten in (I'm sure) any other country in the world.
If we ...
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- Restaurant
- Beach
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Fitness/Health center