Tag: Bahrain

Manamana, do doo be-do-do

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It wasn’t quite Manama in Bahrain but Arad Fort is just next door. Actually, EVERYTHING is just next door in Bahrain. When living in Saudi Arabia, just across the causeway to Bahrain, we used to listen to Radio Bahrain and usually got a kick out of the news reader telling us that “the King has left for the interior of the country”. We thought it might be a euphemism for him having a look at how the palm trees in his backyard were coming on.

At the time, we were looking at this part of Bahrain’s past, Arad Fort was built in the 15th century. Now that I’m looking at the photos it my personal past.

Past Square #29

[Disclaimer: The photos have been photographed from prints.]

Bahraini Collage

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I know Aino has asked for a colour collage based on the flag of Qatar. But when I saw it I immediately thought of the flag of Bahrain. It is basically the same except the shade of red is a tad lighter than the one from Qatar. When we lived in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, we were a bare 20 kilometres (and a causeway and a border on an artificial island) away from Bahrain. In those days my photos were analog, of course, but I made collages in the photo albums and I thought I share one such page today.

I think I can get away with it but I’ll add another collage with details from Bahrain and colours from Oman.

Linked to Värikollaasit #273.