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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
pork - 08:20 PM
(filed under 'bahrain')
within islam, eating pork is forbidden, therefore many places don't have any pork products available. however, supermarkets & malls that are built & stocked almost exclusively for expats do have pork.
the other afternoon, we went out to an asian restaurant for a late lunch. as we were perusing the menu i hadn't actually noticed that there wasn't any pork there until we were very quietly offered another menu, exactly the same as the ones we had, except that it was opened to a page that had meals containing pork.
i'm guessing that this happens in quite a few places. the 'normal' menus are offered & distributed openly in places which are frequented by muslims to avoid offending anyone. the pork menus are only offered to non-muslims .. & very surreptitiously, at that. i'll bet that if we shouted out loudly in glee, "oooh! pork!!" we'd be hushed very quickly & might get some very disapproving looks.
shroom & i wondered if some very strict muslims might not even enter a restaurant or place where food is offered if pork is on the menu.
britt is clear! - 05:53 PM
(filed under 'general')
we got word the other day, but i kept forgetting to pass on the good news. britt, my niece, is officially clear of all leukaemia cells! woohoo! 
almost missed the day at the park - 05:43 PM
(filed under 'bahrain')
that was close!! i almost missed our day at the park with the local ladies i met the other night. we happened to run into ameena & her little boy on the way home from walking down to one of the local shops to get supplies for dinner & she asked, "see you tomorrow?" i thought it was on saturday!
that was a very happy coincidence, indeed. if i hadn't seen her, then i would have missed out!
travelling with google earth - 01:31 PM
(filed under 'bahrain')
i've just put up a set of nine pictures taken from google earth, travelling from australia, around the world & then zooming in to where bahrain is. if you have no idea where bahrain is, this will help.
start here & keep clicking 'prev'. i know, sort of backwards, but you get that.
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