Originally posted by NoahsMommy
Wow, Julie! That was so neat!!! Your home is amazing, truly amazing and I'd LOVE to camp out in your guest room and discover the area.

Very, very cool!

I have questions:
*The compound....is it all yours? Does the company own the compound and you have the house you showed us? How many homes are in your compound? Do you like your neighbors?

*Are there many places your hubby can ride his bike? How do the locals feel abou Harley's or bikes in general?

*Do they have churches there? Like, non-Muslim churches?


OK, gotta go back to the pictures so I can show my hubby!
I would LOVE for you to come and stay... in fact as I have said before if ANY of you Pet Talkers are ever in the Middle East I will be VERY upset if you don't drop in!!!

We rent the house from a landlord, and there are around 20 houses in our compound. Some companies DO have their own housing compounds, thankfully my hubbys does not (Not sure if I would like to be that close to all his colleagues 24/7!!!!)

There are not really many places to ride the bike. Bahrain is VERY small - 20 km wide and 50 km long, so when we have bike runs with the HOG club here it tends to be quite repetative. The plan is to take the bike with us when we leave, and hopefully end up living somewhere more bike-freiendly. There are a mixture of nationalities who ride here - we have everything from US Navy guys to Sheihks riding their Harleys here.

We have many different religious denominations here in Bahrain - obviously Muslims are the majority, as it is a Muslim country, but we also have a range from Catholic to Charismatic churches here - although the services are on a FRIDAY, as Sunday is a normal work day!!