My trip to Bahrain turned out to be a bit of a damp squib. I had thought that with over 100,000 British ex-pats and an F1 track there could be a nice market here for an e25 branch. Unfortunately it did not take long for me to realise that the island is only 20 miles wide at its longest point, and a nice drive would involve driving 300 miles through Saudi Arabia in a dead straight line (with any female in your group covering her head) and you need to reach Qatar before you could look forward to enjoying a beer. Most of the guys I talked to said they would rather just fly over to Dubai and enjoy membership there (or in Qatar). So instead I just took a bit of time off and played some golf in what must have been the world's biggest bunker, interspersed with green bits.
I'll leave you with some pictures of a 27m boat (sleeps 8) in Dubai. I met the owner of this beauty who is very keen to promote it to e25 members to use on a shared basis - I'll thrash out a deal when I get back to Blighty.
Now back to Istanbul to pick up the kids.
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