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riad dar najat"the coolest riad in marrakesh" by black zitoun
The riad Marrakech Dar Najat is a welcome retreat from the hustle and bustle of Marrakech.The guest house Marrakech is also very well located in the old center to get the real feel of traditional Morocco..!
In search of the elusive eephus ball (I)
Beer, Bacon and Bargirls: SAPTCO bus to King Fahd International Airport, Dammam
Public transport in Saudi Arabia is about as developed as you'd expect in a country where oil costs $0.10 a litre, so it was with no small astonishment that I spied the sign for an airport shuttle service at Dammam's little SAPTCO bus terminal. We were at the terminal already and the next hourly departure was in 20 minutes, so why not give it a shot? After all, it was Friday afternoon and the noon prayers were droning on outside, meaning that absolutely nothing was open.
Beer, Bacon and Bargirls: Manama, Bahrain
Manama reminds me of Abu Dhabi: they're both smallish and filthy rich cities on the Gulf, relatively liberal by Gulf standards, have city centers dating to the 1970s but with huge amounts of construction now adding modern skyscrapers into the mix, and have virtually nothing in the way of attractions. Bahrain's unofficial symbol is the Pearl Roundabout, which is, you guessed it, a roundabout which has a large statue of pointy things (supposedly dhow sails) holding a pearl aloft. Yay?
Beer, Bacon and Bargirls: Saudi-Bahraini Transport Company, Khobar to Manama
Up at 10 AM the next morning, we demolished the complimentary fruit basket in lieu of breakfast and had the hotel drop us off at the SABTCO station. We were in luck: there are only six buses a day, but the very next one had free seats at SR50 a pop (~US$12) and was leaving in half an hour. Although it wasn't exactly a bus: the Khobar-Bahrain service uses little minibuses seating perhaps 20 and pulling along a dinky little trailer for luggage.
Beer, Bacon and Bargirls: Train 9, First Class, Riyadh-Dammam
As a bit of a train buff, I tried my best to google up some info -- any info -- about the services of the Saudi Railways Organization before our trip, but virtually none was forthcoming, and eventually it was Trsqr who did the (considerable) legwork of reserving tickets. He rustled up the number of Dammam's train station from somewhere and got an Arabic speaker to proxy, and it turned out that even the SRO website's schedules are inaccurate.
Beer, Bacon and Bargirls: A Multimodal Escape to Bahrain
One sunny day I found myself in Riyadh with a weekend to spare, and as luck would have it, fellow Wikitraveller and Flyertalker Trsqr was in exactly the same predicament. It was school holiday season in Saudi, so flights were packed tighter than the Jamarat Bridge on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah, so fuelled by a champagne-and-cigar binge in a disco ball suspended 240 meters above Riyadh, we eventually settled on visiting that den of relative iniquity known as the Kingdom of Bahrain, taking the train out and the plane back in.
Photos from Tunisia
International Travel by Senior Citizens– Tips, Insurance and Online
You have been working all your life. You don’t regret having spent most of your adult-hood raising children, giving them comfort and education plus providing for food, shelter and security. You have turned 60 now. It is time to take a much deserved break. Right time to go and see the world around. India is beautiful and you may have seen most of it by now, so why not explore foreign countries. If you are thinking in that direction, then I must tell, that you are thinking right. Don’t wait for another 2 or 5 years as this is the time.
Travelling to United States of America (USA) – Tips, Insurance and Online!
It is a vacation time and also a good time to travel to United Stated for business. Soon, students will also start preparing to arrive in the land of opportunities for their academic pursuits.
