Monthly Archive: March 2023

Michelle’s Musing

My thoughts on our Arabian visit. I was excited to be visiting Saudi Arabia with awareness to respect the cultural ways of a country not long open to tourism and quite different from New...

Celebrating Ramadan

Ramadan Kareem We are in Saudi Arabia during the month of Ramadan, incredible to be here at the birth place of Islam during this very holy month. Ramadan is all about self-discipline, introspection, sacrifice,...

New friends

A really lovely consequence of this journey has been the people we have met and befriended, which was unexpected. Not a new friend, but a very old friendship going back to 1985!! Suzette and...

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah.

A fantastic racing weekend at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix….very different to our 1st GP in Bahrain. The entire CCJ (Corniche Circuit Jeddah) area is HUGE, we walked just over 20,000 steps on Friday...

Last Sunday in Bahrain

(aka Dave’s videos) We have had an eventful day! We found the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manama and attended Mass. It was the same but different! 7 Priests and around 15 deacons officiated....

Bahrain – Al Muharraq

Today we went further afield to a different part of Bahrain which seemed more residential and not touristy or commercial. Al Muharraq. There were some gorgeous cultural sites and ancient houses dating back to...