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Settled In

So well we've been in Bahrain now for a few months on and off with many a trip back to Saudi to renew visa et al in between. I love this country. Where else lights up all its buildings with LED lighting just for the hell of it and then forgets to take them all down until they go out one by one. Putting all new lighting up over the old the next year!

What other country shuts down completely so its prime minister can cruise round with his posse whenever he feels like it and has civil riots where they let a car with someone who is 90 percent sure to be an American Expat through while shouting anti American slogans...

What do we want?
No AMERICANS...but this one...
When do we want it?
IN A MINUTE...when he's gotten his car past us and hasn't run any of us over... yeah thats right...

Its pretty cruizy here. We're seeing more of our Saudi mates than ever before in a weird way because having a friend to stop in and see in Bahrain is a lot cheaper than the hotels which can clock in at $400 AUD a night so we're having many a nice night out.

AJ's mum and dad just spent a week and a bit with us and got to experience the sheer joy of Middle Eastern driving just to prove they couldn't get enough of it after a month in Egypt!

The only sad but happy news at the moment is our mates Ayumi and Craig are leaving the region for Singapore but that just means someone in SE Asia to welch off of MUWHAHAHA. I'm arranging a 'bugger off' cake at the local patisserie to take out to RT on the weekend for their going away... I'm sure there will be embarrassing photos to post.

Our much missed mates from WA Mersedeh and Peddy moved to Bahrain almost a month ago and I've seen them probably a sum total of twice so far due to the sheer insanity of setting up a house here... I so don't envy them their trips to immigration right now! Think a very very large hall of sweaty 'musky' men staring at you and talking about you in Arabic and you've got the picture. I'm sure they're relishing eeeeevery moment... I know I did!

We've also started to get the hang of the place and I'm pretty good now at getting lost in interesting places and then realising that I've been there before on my adventures flying over speedbumps when our friends Renee and Tom obligingly humoured me in my quest to find something interesting to show them!

Other than that... its latish and I need a beer...

I love Chuck... how could you not!

If anyone has a shoe spare....

If anyone has a shoe spare to lob at this guy feel free... Or if anyone just wants to give him a killer wedgie for contributing to the complete annihilation of the pound sterling and the British economy they're more than welcome. I know I shouldn't have all this vitriol... but just look at the man... his face screams 'Throw your old size 9 in my direction pointy bit first'

Belated Christmas Photos

So here's some belated photos of our Christmas on the East Coast of Oz. We headed down from Brizzie through Byron to the Hunter Valley and had a pretty layed back few days. The above photos are Tony's first beer in Australia, a Byron Sandcastle of greatness and Me looking like a wooden board while Tony takes the fifth bad photo in a long string of bad photos

I'm BAAACK

HA! I've defeated the Arabic login on my blogger page by randomly clicking every button I could until it put me through to an english log in!

Well now that I've managed to log in... I've got to go again. We've got some guys from Saudi over this evening. They've just spent FIVE HOURS on the causeway so they're going to be super pissy.