Are You OK?

K and I try to walk around as much as we can - not least because now is the time to do it before it gets too hot to be out of the air condition. It's also the best way to size up a neighborhood, spot the small shops and feel more at home. Only here most people don't walk anywhere - the affluent population has (multiple) cars and drive wherever they go and only sometimes are maids and cleaning staff (typically from the Philippines and India) seen walking alongside the road to get to the nearest bus stop.

We've been approached twice now by local Kuwaiti people with a 'Are you okay?'. Clearly, if two white people are walking around on the dusty roads in a neighborhood without Western style restaurants, something must be wrong! I'm sure in their eyes we look like someone who had a flat tire but no one to call for help... It's nice to know, though, that if one day we are walking involuntarily, there will certainly be someone offering to help.

Some random pics from our walks:


(An ill-maintained freedom monument (?) along the Gulf Road)


(A 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' haunted castle...)


(A newspaper commercial by a bus stand)


(And a camel stuck behind bars in an amusement park)