A day on the town

Trip Start Mar 18, 2008
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Trip End Mar 31, 2008


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Saturday, March 22, 2008

I went to Bahrain today, to visit a friend who is doing an internship there.  The thing is, I left my (brand new, indestructable) digital camera and its USB port in the hostel, so you'll have to come back later to see the pictures.  Some of which I can never publish.

The coolest thing about Bahrain is the tree of life--a tree somehow growing out in the desert with nothing else around.  We also visited the Bahrain fort, which was built by the Portugese when they had the island several centuries ago.  And we went to the heritage museum.

I guess none of that is very interesting (you had to be there).  I can tell you some things about Bahrain, however. 
1.  It is a desert island, most of which is off-limits to folks like you and me.
2.  The leaders aren't as cool as in the Emirates--they create traffic when they leave their palaces, instead of driving their own Landrovers down Sheikh Zayed and getting stuck in traffic.  They've walled off most of the island for their own purposes, instead of living in a palace along the waterfront with a public beach on one side, and neighbor on the other side.  Yeaaahhh....I should stop talking now.
3.  The Saudis criticise everyone else, flog women who get gang raped, and yet come over every single weekend for their stupid drunken orgies and congest the entire city with their traffic.  Thank you, Saudi Arabia for making me a slightly more bitter person.
4.  Like many Gulf States, Bahrain is making strides in virtually everything.
5.  There are Sunni/Shia tensions.
6.  It was very windy the day I was there, which was the remnant of a fierce sandstorm in Saudi and Kuwait.

I guess this is still very boring.  I'll try to improve it when I put my pictures up.
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