Being here

After having had a sightseeing tour from the air of London, the journey continued over continental Europe at night...Brussels, the Saarland, Hungary, the Black Sea with its oil platform (recognisible from the airplane as a burning spot in the dark night), Turkey (mostly under clouds) and the Northern part of Iraq with Mosul clearly visible and the sunrise over the desert...

once there, exploring the neighbourhood and the city come first....so it can happen that:

• there are more fruits and vegetables availabe than in Europe (since nobody cares if they're seasonal or not)..this is also true for everything else..when you have two or three different butter in the supermarket in Europe, well, here you have like 20...
• the sun sets as a giant yellow ball (not red, because the haze filters out the red), at exactly 6pm, and then its dark...really dark...
• you cannot acces the Skype website, but you can use it if you have downloaded it previously in Europe
• you get a wake up call from the mosques in the neighbourghood every time at sunrise when its time for prayer
• the taxi driver might not take you back home, since he doesn't know your address

Since money is everywhere in Kuwait, high segment cars are nothing special.. (so a little bit like Geneva in the summer)...but prices vary just like the various degree of religiousness (from no headscarf to complete disguise)...so:

• the taxi drive into Kuwait City can you 12CHF, and back only 6
• a bottle of water is more expensive than gasoline
• honey can range from 3CHF to 35CHF for half a kilogram (the cheapest being the imported one)