After arriving in Bahrain yesterday, I woke up today with one goal in mind — visit ‘home’.
By home I mean, visiting the apartment building I spent much of my years growing up in Bahrain. It’s why I stayed in Awal Hotel, it was very close to everything I wanted to see in Manama (the capital of Bahrain).
As I was walking from Awal Hotel to my old apartment, I realized Bahrain Hotel was still standing
Although abandoned now, Bahrain Hotel was the first proper hotel in Bahrain, having first opened in the 1920s.
Where this empty plot of land sits, used to be an old petrol station… and the pick-up point for my school bus
There is a vlog at the bottom of this post which shows the path I walked, so do watch the video later.
There it still stands — Tawfiq building. My home for much of my childhood.
Where Omega Restaurant (left) stands now used to be a sandwich and tea shop during my time. And the cold store (to the right) is still there.
A ‘cold store’ used to be the local grocery store. The name ‘cold store’ came about because it implies the store had refrigeration, to store soft drinks and frozen foods. Cold stores were where my family did all our grocery shopping before supermarkets took over in the 1990s.
Next to Tawfiq building is… or was… Ambassador Hotel. Now turned into flats for bachelors.
