A trip around Bahrain

Today we began a 4 day weekend. The king of Saudi Arabia declared that the 22nd of Sept. (the 1st day of the work week-Sunday) a holiday because the National Day of Saudi Arabia is the 23rd of Sept. With the extra day we went into the neighboring country of Bahrain went shopping & attended services as the NSA Bahrain before we ventured out to see the rest of the island nation, which isn't much but desert, oil fields, refineries, & other military installations. Outside the capital city of Manama there are other towns such as Isa, Sitra, Riffa, etc. Some of these towns there are pockets of unrest as the locals disrupt the flow of life due to their circumstances. Today we ran into one of those disruptive activities when going down a street we found out it was blocked off with burning tires, 4 in a row. Nothing very serious but what was strange was that was it. No one was on the streets protesting or any other signs of folks being disgruntled. So we drove around this small annoyance & progressed on to see Durrant Resort which was basically an exclusive gated community, the Tree of Life (a large tree growing in the middle of the desert surrounded by oil production & carved-tagged to bits), & basically, the lay of the land. I did get stuck in the sand but some very nice gentlemen from Pakistan and locals help me push my vehicle out. Thank God.