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Making the utmost of the recent change in weather

October 16 - 22, 2013
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As you have probably been able to tell from my previous articles, I am very much a sun fearing person when it comes to the intense, unforgiving weather in this country. I religiously avoid being left in direct sunlight or being heated to any degree warmer than is necessary for the enzymes in my body to function optimally. Yet, I find myself writing this outside, in the early afternoon, while lazing around in a deck chair and absorbing every ray of sun that my pasty skin can handle.

The reason for this being, as some of you may have noticed, is that the weather is taking a turn for the pleasant. It is becoming a few degrees cooler, the wind is blowing a few knots stronger and the sun is beginning to set earlier. It’s a shame that we can only spend lazy days outside such as this one during half-term holidays.

And so begins what most would call ‘autumn’ the transition between summer and winter. Yet as ‘Bahrainis’ we know better. This is the transition between Bahrain’s perpetual summer, and what, at most can be called ‘not quite summer’.







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