I just realized that in a year and half I’ve been traveling back and forth to home every three months or so and every time I go I tour at least another city other than mine. It’s really intriguing how you get to see more of a place when you don’t live there anymore. I guess this would be attributable to your emotional change towards such place. When you reside there its home, it’s the place where you work, see your family and meet up with your friends and that is all time consuming. But once you seize to reside there, you get the feeling of a tourist going to visit this place, it won’t be long before your leave is gone and you are heading out of the place you so – once – called home.Last time I visited, I went to Sharm El Sheikh with some Egyptian friends of mine. We had a blast over there. I always do when I go to Sharm. The whole city gives you the feeling of the resort to which you can only respond to by enjoying the leisure time you will get to spend there.
Later on in Alexandria, I met up with some Bahraini friends of mine who came over to visit. It was their first trip to Egypt and although they traveled to other places before – mostly western – they were amazed by the difference of cultures that Bahrain and Egypt do have. Although both countries are supposed to be of a common culture and background but they are worlds apart. I, myself, haven’t really touched upon that fact, for me Bahrain is the same like Egypt but more calmness and less stress but in eighteen months I came to a realization that Bahrain is more like an expats city in the Gulf and locals don’t get to enjoy it as we expats do.
