The following are the suresigns of summer’s arrival in Bahrain:
- Blackouts at the most unholiest hours of the day
- Despite #1, you end up paying more for your electricity bill at the end of the month
- When you find an ‘Al-Waseet’ laying around, you look for swimming pools to rent.
- Wherever you drive you will likely see at least 3 or 4 kids learning how to drive… on every main road from 7 am to 6pm!
- You hear that your friends are either going to Makkah, Dubai or Thailand for their holidays
- Every week your family are invited to at least one wedding or ‘Henna’
- You can’t touch your car’s steering wheel when you first get in the car.
- You realise a bit too late that your car’s A/C gas has run out
- Turning on the hot water tap to wash your hands because it is actually much cooler than the supposed ‘cold water’
- Seeing kids riding their bikes and preparing to play football in the neighbourhood at 3 am!
Do you have any more?
Good list – I like no.3 ! Another sure sign of summer (I had put this on my blog a while back), relevant on humid days at least: when your glasses fog up as you leave a building – it drives me crazy that I can’t see anything when I step outside! Plus, always feeling slightly dehydrated from being in airconditioned environments twenty-four hours a day…
nice one! lol that’s maybe one of the reasons why I don’t wear sunglasses because they fog up and I either forget them or sit on them by mistake:’(
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Ten Signs of Bahraini Summers, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.