Amazingly, I’ve been living in Kuwait for nine months already and now it’s almost time for me to pack up and move on. I’m happy (and massively relieved) to say that I finally know where I’m moving on to. After a lot of soul searching and a good deal of lying awake at night staring at the ceiling, I’ve decided that I’m moving to Bahrain.
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I’ll admit it – I’ve been mentally planning my trip to Southeast Asia ever since I read ‘Eat. Pray. Love.’ Reading that book made me long to wander the beaches of Bali, meditate in an ashram in India and just generally live out my wildest hippie dreams. Actually, I think that’s when my obsession with finding inner peace really started to go into overdrive.
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Of all the places I’ve visited in the Middle East so far, Bahrain is hands down my favourite. It’s more Westernised than Kuwait, what with all the bars and abundance of liquor, but not as in your face as the non-stop party scene of Dubai. For me, it strikes the perfect balance between the two. (Of course, the fact that it’s flooded with navy men is another obvious bonus.) Undoubtedly, though, the main thing that keeps me heading back to Bahrain is an all you can eat brunch in Juffair that serves up the best party in town every Friday afternoon.
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When I was first offered a job in Kuwait, I couldn’t even pick out the country on a map, much less tell you what I was getting myself into in moving there. I scoured the internet for practical information about expat life in Kuwait, but a lot of what I found was vague or contradictory. All I had to go on were some fuzzy ideas about what it might be like to live in the Middle East and all of them were based entirely on watching Aladdin and Sex and the City 2.
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Without a doubt, the thing I was looking forward to the most about my trip to Sri Lanka was the prospect of laying eyes on a wild elephant. With nearly 6,000 of them roaming the island, the odds of catching sight of one seemed pretty good, especially since I’d already set my mind on visiting Minneriya National Park, home of the largest Asian elephant gathering in the entire world. Surely, if I was going to find an elephant anywhere, it would be there!
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