crazy weeks because of high-level visits

sorry for the biiiig gap between the last post and this one...

These last couple of weeks some high-level delegations had visited the region, amongst others, the
Vice-President/Minister of Foreign Affairs from back home. The Embassy was in charge of organizing these visits which was quite the chaotic but fun task. It is not so easy to get 20 people together for a dinner...because the people in mind are bored of these dinners, have other obligations...or just simply don't think it necessary to answer to an invitation, so you have no idea if they will show up in the end...
..well, I had the chance of some very interesting and busy days and receptions...the first was on a Saturday a dinner in the Kuwait Towers (about 100 meters above ground) with the Vice-President and her delegation and some Kuwaiti high-level and business people, then the following day a lunch at the Emiri Palace (I'll explain the fonctioning of such an event in another post)..and then followed in the evening by a lunch at the Ambassador's residence... the result of these three large meals within 24 hours was spending the next (working) day in bed and only eating "Zwieback" and rice for the next two days (we've never figured out which meal caused the issue) but when Mr. Ambassador asked me two days later, and his words were: " don't be afraid, I would like to invite you and some others from the Embassy to my place for dinner"...I laughed and told him that I should probably only have rice...and he said, well, rice it will be for me..haha..

so the last weeks have given me a very interesting insight into business and political visits of a State guest and also a lunch at a Palace...
oh yeah, I almost forgot...there were a gazillion Swiss flags hanging in Kuwait City for the occasion (and I am sure they have as many for any other country)

Pictures will be posted after the upcoming holidays (after the 21st)

Further, I found a wonderful place to swim (ok, it's like 80km down South)..and the water is still quite ok with about 25 Celcius and air temperature about 29..although the nights are much colder now, about 14 ;)