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Forum: Middle East
Apr 9th 2017, 5:52 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 857
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Bahrain Grand Prix

Always plenty of tickets available. Some selling below face value now on expatriates.com
Forum: The Sand Pit
Jun 29th 2016, 10:00 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,637
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: R&R in Bahrain

Plenty of bars open during Ramadan and they will ALL be open during Eid.
Forum: Middle East
May 9th 2016, 9:04 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 3,384
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Saudi Arabia Visa Run

If you're in Jubail it's easier to drive to Bahrain and have a pint, just make sure that you get customs papers for the car. Alternatively they are taxis which can take you over for about SAR 250...
Forum: Middle East
Oct 25th 2015, 9:25 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 937
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Mobile Apps Use In KSA

Download the TuneIn Radio app no need for VPN doesn't allow sports commentary due to rights issues but otherwise Capital FM, BBC, Heart etc all available. For Sport you'll need a VPN some can't be...
Forum: Middle East
Jan 10th 2015, 7:05 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 4,893
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Bahrain Living/Social

Brits get 3 months visa on arrival for BD20
Forum: Middle East
Nov 24th 2014, 9:21 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 4,893
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Bahrain Living/Social

Wouldn't rush into finding a place as soon as you get here, try and stay in a hotel (but depressing) or furnished apartment while you find your feet.

No real idea about Amwaj, don't venture out...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 18th 2014, 5:13 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 3,685
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Change to transit visas BAH to Saudi via Causeway?

Yep - another colleague came in for a meeting in Bahrain earlier this month again with UAE residency, landed got charged BD20, checked back in 4 hours later.
Forum: Middle East
Nov 17th 2014, 7:07 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 3,685
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Change to transit visas BAH to Saudi via Causeway?

Yep a typo thanks for pointing that out - Airport to Saudi to Bahrain same day, then again Saudi to Bahrain on Sunday.

No Iqama only UAE residency.

He paid BD2 at the airport (even though he...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 15th 2014, 10:30 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 3,685
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Change to transit visas BAH to Saudi via Causeway?

So it continues to be completely random, a Brit arrived last Wednesday from AUH paid BD2 on arrival at the airport, I took him straight across the causeway into Bahrain, back again in the evening to...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 5th 2014, 6:39 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 3,685
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Change to transit visas BAH to Saudi via Causeway?

Not sure about the BD25 coming through the airport heard from a friend, but had a Brit with UAE residency arrive yesterday and got charged BD20 left again same day, and another Brit with no GCC...
Forum: Middle East
Nov 1st 2014, 7:44 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 3,685
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Change to transit visas BAH to Saudi via Causeway?

Colleagues with UAE residency have always been paying BD5 from exiting KSA into Bahrain even for flight out same day. With no Saudi or Bahrain residency this has been the fee for some time. Visa on...
Forum: Middle East
Oct 19th 2014, 10:44 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 3,934
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Advice for wife in Al Khobar

Agree to a certain extent and I had a great lifestyle in Khobar when I was single and working there but cannot imagine a 14 year old enjoying being locked down in a compound, having to wear an Abaya...
Forum: Middle East
Oct 18th 2014, 10:14 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 3,934
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Advice for wife in Al Khobar

Agree with Work Widow, I live in Bahrain and commute to Jubail, happy wife, happy life, though that being said we also lived in Khobar for 4 years and had a great time, though we had no kids at the...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Sep 6th 2014, 11:15 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,171
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Bahrain

Just seen this, assume you've not been and gone already:-
Don't head downtown too much during the week but you could try
Fiddlers Green - The Diplomat Hotel, Diplomatic Area
The Exchange - Ramada...
Forum: The Sand Pit
Aug 13th 2014, 9:21 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,548
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: R.I.P. Robin Williams

Spot on K+ :goodpost:
Forum: ME Job Discussions
Jun 28th 2014, 9:46 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 4,608
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Offer in Jubail

I commute daily from Bahrain to Jubail as do many of my friends, it is possible and gives the family a much better life than being locked down in a compound in Jubail. Personally, I would leave the...
Forum: Middle East
Jun 21st 2014, 6:10 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,351
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: BA flight Doha to LHR

You stay on the plane, same on the way back to Doha, lands in Bahrain first - which is nice for those of us living in Bahrain.
Forum: Middle East
Jun 8th 2014, 10:02 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 3,110
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Medical Test-Bahrain

Don't bother wasting your money. Smoking is a national pastime.
Forum: Middle East
Jun 8th 2014, 9:46 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,903
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: What happens to everyone's job...

Nigeria's not too bad CDB, I spent 7 years there with the family, some people got robbed, some didn't. I hear from friends still there that things have improved lots in the last 3 years. Could be...
Forum: The Sand Pit
May 25th 2014, 9:21 pm
Replies: 84
Views: 5,836
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Proud to be a northerner

Bahtatboy - also totally gutted that the Mighty Shrimpers didn't make it through but not surprised.
Forum: ME Job Discussions
May 19th 2014, 7:49 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 3,697
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Relocation to Bahrain from UK Employer-Salary Offered

Are they still the same - i.e. out for a full tax year following the tax year during which you leave the UK?

If he's coming on a 2 year assignment since it is already after April 6th 2014 he...
Forum: ME Job Discussions
May 18th 2014, 11:41 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 3,697
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Relocation to Bahrain from UK Employer-Salary Offered

It is do-able.

Push for minimum 1 return flight each per year - this is normal to say the least.

Some ideas on costs for you

St. Chris Infants school is BD 3440 / year for 2014/2015...
Forum: Middle East
May 4th 2014, 7:17 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 4,297
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Struggling

Which bar exactly do you recommend in Yanbu? Or are we correct to assume that your special knowledge of the Middle East and Saudi Arabia in particular does not stretch to the fact that Saudi is dry....
Forum: Middle East
Apr 26th 2014, 11:47 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,240
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: Out property searching today...

propertyfinder.qa would suggest that they are in Qatar - as would previous posts in other threads
Forum: The Sand Pit
Apr 23rd 2014, 5:33 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 860
Posted By Backinthesand

Re: "What does your Poo say about you"

Black poo can be a sign of drinking Guinness - no sh*t Sherlock
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