Al Kout at night, originally uploaded by Mister Ian.

It is an award winning architecture with musical fountains surrounded by restaurants.

It is very pleasant in the evenings, though parking can be a challenge. The days are now quieter as it gets hotter but nights are busy as it cools down a bit after sundown.

This image is a combination of four images shot handheld with a 50 mm fixed lens and stitched together in Photoshop. I’m going to head back some time and do some more with the tripod and different lenses.

Amazing creatures, the snails of the sea, without shells. I’ve seem some diving but not like this!

Article here:

Nudibranchs - National Geographic Magazine

Photos here.

Iceland Express: Cheap flights to Iceland every day with Iceland’s low-fare airline

Let’s go!

From Who Will Tell the People? « Here There and Everywhere a very interesting article on society from the New York Times.
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20080505_DSC3007, originally uploaded by Mister Ian.

Monday evening we went for a walk on the beach and the camera came along.

20080503_DSC2949, originally uploaded by Mister Ian.

This is another view of the camels I saw last night next to the Faheel Expressway.

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20080503_DSC2985, originally uploaded by Mister Ian.

I went out just before sunset to explore some photo opportunities and saw several camels with their herder eating the leaves from the thorny tree. Aren’t they so pretty!

There was a short and wild dust storm last week. And apparently the dust is not clean desert sand. Read the following:

Not your Kuwaiti Dust Storm « Here There and Everywhere

We finally went to the highly rated Tanureen.

Well it is the opposite of the restaurant on mars. That is the atmosphere is great but the food isn’t so good. Or you can say the restaurant on mars has no atmosphere but great food

The mixed grill meats were good, but the rest of the food was so so. The soups were OK, but the grilled hammour was dry and boring. There is much better Lebanese elsewhere.

But to go and hang out and early so we didn’t get smoked out by the clouds of smoke from the shisha smokers.