Exploring Bahrain!

My office is located at Adliya, one of the highest populated areas in Bahrain. Adliya is a main residencial area and loads of expatriates are living there. You can find a lot of Pilipino, Indians, Pakistanis, Bengali, Europeans and some Sri Lankans at Adliya. Due to the easy access to all the facilities and reasonable cost of accommodation, the area has become very popular.  

Another very popular area is Juffair, near the eastern costal side. What is interesting about Juffair is that it was built on sea. The sea was filled with sand and made the ground which is home to hundreds of huge buildings today. Now Juffair’s most expensive luxury apartments, happening night clubs and pubs, various restaurants and hotels are the most crowd pulling points during the weekend. American Naval Base is located in this area and Americans hanging around in the bars and roads is a common scene in the area. Naval Base is one of the main reasons for all the best brands in the kingdom to be in Juffair.

I happened to drop in to a few places in Juffair and Adliya last Week. Bennigans (A nice dining spot and a pub with Pilipino staff), Dublin (Awesome place with a Canadian band), Club at Hotel Riviera (With an unusual pool inside the club), Bed Rocks (The Jurassic Park) and The Buffalo (with very attractive wash rooms) at Hotel California, Club JJ - the Irish pub (Colonial type architecture with a super DJ) were some of them. Dublin and The Buffalo were full of Americans and Europeans and indeed the night was happening there. Club JJ was also interesting with good music.

I went there with Rob and bunch of his friends. Rob is a British, working and living in Bahrain with his family for last few years. We met at one of the exhibitions held at Gulf Hotel and he was demonstrating the awesome Xbox there.  Well, according to him, his job is not normally playing Xbox although he is good at it. lol. He is a member of a business group called “The Round Table” and invited me to join them too. It was awesome to hang around with Rob the super cool DJ Silent Bob (not his current profession), Stuart the super duper Chrysler chap and the crowd at that night. That is what you call absolute fun without absolute vodka but with few beers of course.  Thank you Rob!