Don’t know what’s happening to Bahrain. Arms of any kind are banned. No one has a gun – or shouldn’t, but we hear from the local press this morning that yet another armed robbery attempt at a bank in Riffa happened yesterday when a Bahraini guy dressed in a women’s Abaya and Burqa pulled a …

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I hear a lot of sirens in Manama today.. any idea what’s going on?

It’s been many months that bonzaimark has been reading and contributing to this blog, so it was a real pleasure meeting the guy in the flesh for the first time! He just arrived in Bahrain last night to participate in a charity golf tournement and visit family, and took the trouble to visit me in …

An “exceptionalâ€? Swiss pocket watch once owned by King Fouad of Egypt, which is due to go under the hammer in Geneva, has been put on public display in Bahrain. It was made by the oldest manufacturer of watches in the world, Vacheron Constantin, which celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2005. … Not surprisingly the …