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Sunday, November 27, 2005
new residence - 10:00 PM
(filed under 'bahrain')
we've found ourselves a new residence. i went out today with a british expatriate real estate agent who has been living in bahrain for about five years. he showed me various apartments, villas & a compound (the tour included one particularly disturbing comment as we passed a compound. he indicated at the wall as we drove past & said, "that used to be a good compound, but now it's full of indians." i was kind of dumbstruck & wasn't able to make a response).
so anyway, racist comments aside, we looked at about five or six places. the one i deemed most suitable (given a blessing by shroom on my description of it) is a two storey place within a small villa comprised of five or six apartments. there were two available there, one with apartments on either side & one on the corner. i chose the one on the corner because it has windows where the other one doesn't & the balcony (small, but a sizable one for a place where balconies are expensive) has a view from two sides instead of just one.
it also has its own lock up garage with a door entering directly into the apartment. as part of the deal we'll be getting a full time housekeeper who'll do two meals a day, shopping, washing, ironing, cleaning & maybe even look after smiley for part of the day so that i can start making more jewellery. woohoo! it's perfect. 
we sign the lease tomorrow, but at this stage i'm not sure when we'll be moving. as soon as possible, i guess. the move shouldn't be too difficult since we didn't bother unpacking most of the few possessions we brought with us to bahrain.
some pictures - 08:30 AM
(filed under 'bahrain')
i haven't had much chance to take many pictures yet, but these are a start. i've been uploading them to flickr so you can see the bahrain set over here. keep checking back if you want to see more as i'll add to them bit by bit. i guess i'll probably make a note here if i've uploaded any new ones.
stupid email - 08:10 AM
(filed under 'site stuff')
i still can't get email working with the smtp settings which are given on the the batelco site (the only phone & internet carrier in bahrain) so i've given up & am going to use my gmail email to receive comments from my site. at least this way i can reply to comments.
apologies to those who've made comments to which i haven't replied. i should be able to reply much easier now.
if you'd like to contact me via email use ferrous--at--gmail--dot--com.
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