Manama Travel Blogs

Time to go on to my next destinations: Dubai. Since a few years I really wanted to visit this amazing place. Now I’m waiting at the airport of Bahrain for my next flight GF 544, 15.40 to Abu Dhabi. Just one thing is so annoying, each 5 minutes they are calling the flights and all that stuff. Impo…

Mandy came and visited Bahrain. It was part of her "half way around the world trip." She arrived in Bahrain on the 28 Feb. And spent 3 days in Bahrain. Unfortunately I had to work during the day, so tried to show her as much of the city as I could during night time when I got back from work.Mandy m…

Unfortunately, Ahmed's friend from the museum wasn't free today.  Ahmed offered to show us around himself, which is very, very kind considering he was working afternoon shifts and had just come off nights.  Lorna, Ahmed and I all went off to the National Museum, leaving Lucy to enjoy the …

On our way to Amman, Jordan, we had a 3-hour layover in Manama, Bahrain. Before this trip I had never even heard of this country! In their English-language newspaper, I learned that little Bahrain is striving to build tourism akin to Dubai levels (they better start building crazy shit like islands …

Monsoons, great views and great Asian variety cusine.  excellent place to take that special other or just a nice place to eat, you will not be disappointed.  

After 9 hours of sitting inside the plane, we had a stop over for another 9 hours at Bahrain for our next flight to CDG(Charles de Gaulles) is at 2a.m., we slept at the hotel, walk around the city and then head back to the airport for our next flight. 

First time in Bahrain and I wasn't really sure what's ahead of me. The purpose of the trip was to see my then-boyfriend (now ex obviously lol) who moved to Bahrain a couple of months before this trip. That was in June 05, mid-summer, it was so hot that my mind just couldn't be bothered to…

One of our first stops right after Desert Storm. Great time very expensive and very hard to find a drink there. Only the Hotels sell beer.

As other country in the Middle East, Bahrain is a great country for shopping. When I said great here, it actually meant has any kind of shops you can imagine. Just mention it and you'll find it. I came here for work, but because I stayed in the Mercure Grand Seef Hotel, I managed to visit 3 out of …

These are photo's of some of the places i have been to and taken the photo's while i have been working on ships.

My life as a flight attendant -- as of right now it's just an itinerary of where I've been but I may add some places to go, sites to see, and all that soon. = )

In a perfect world with no flight cancellations or delays, and where someone could hop from plane to plane within 15 minutes, how many countries can a person visit in the shortest possible time? Here's one possibility using July 2006 timetables.