The Whisperer

Top class service
A newcomer to the kingdom who recently moved to Sar was amazed that when he asked directions everything appeared to evolve around the Burgerland roundabout.

How do you get to Geant he asked one day; answer, left to Manama after the Burgerland roundabout; right to Saudi etc. It was only on Sunday, however, that he stopped for the first time to sample the Burgerland experience. He was taken aback by the superb service, not only did staff help him into a parking space, they assisted him with his order, took it to his seat and even cleared up after he had finished his tasty meal of lamb chops. Normal fare in Bahrain, my dear, but totally different to the service (or lack of it) you accept as the norm in dear old Blighty.
Nice to hear that Burgerland continues to represent the very best of Bahrain!

Let’s Get ‘em!
Bahrain’s traffic cops are rumoured to be planning a ‘get heavy’ campaign against the boy racers. Dubbed ‘Operation Get ‘em’ – the plan involves deploying traffic cops in disguise in strategic areas at critical times. One officer, who wished to remain anonymous, described how he had been told to spend weekends in the desert sitting outside a tent watching and filming the boys who whizz around on the quad bikes. Another, Mohamed, described how he would have to be by a broken-down car on the Al Areen Road, pretending to be repairing the engine. Let’s hope the operation does, indeed, “get ’em”.
 
Just the job
The staff of DHL enjoyed a fun-filled weekend with their impressive charity fund-raising internal football championship staged at the rugby ground. But spare a thought for the Whisperer’s acquaintance, a former bouncer at BJ’s in Bahrain, who was recently promoted from his post in Iraq to one in … Afghanistan. Some chaps have all the luck!

Make it snappy!
The GulfWeekly’s photographer was invited to Monday night’s Middle East Oil Show reception at the British Embassy and was warned that because a VVIP (yes, two Vs, I joke not) would attend, security would be very tight. Why the secrecy surrounding the very, very important person’s name? If the political, press and public affairs officer had bothered to look at last Friday’s GDN she would have read that the Duke of York was in town.