What can I say, my itinerary is often dictated by my stomach! The high point of this past Friday (June 4
th) was lunch at
Riccardo's, the Italian restaurant located on the first floor of the
Sheraton Hotel in downtown Kuwait City.
And the meal I had was
hammour - an excellent white fish caught locally in the Arabian Gulf. (Cost: 16.8
KD = $58
USD)
The hallway by the front desk at the Sheraton is quite ornate and beckons all guests, welcoming them in from the 110+ deg F (43 deg C) heat outside.
An unusual looking building in downtown Kuwait City. Not sure what this building is for.
Sorry to bore you with this seemingly trivial detail but one of the chores I have to run along with any run into the city is my weekly stocking up of groceries. I bring along an ice chest (and ICE) to protect and preserve my food from the blistering heat inside the car's trunk (or 'boot' as the Brits might say). Today's haul cost me 21.38
KD or about $74
USD (60 Euros).
Some good news to report!! I have been informed that our local Al
Zour Starbucks may be opening up in a week or so. The
Starbucks located along Highway 40 near the Al
Zour turnoff was closed down by the Kuwaiti authorities over one year ago because the owner apparently had no official license. Or so the story goes. I just hope they open this Starbucks real soon!! Dozens of us expats will be pleased!!
What can I say, my itinerary is often dictated by my stomach! The high point of this past Friday (June 4th) was lunch at Riccardo's, the Italian restaurant located on the first floor of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Kuwait City.
And the meal I had was hammour - an excellent white fish caught locally in the Arabian Gulf. (Cost: 16.8 KD = $58 USD)
The hallway by the front desk at the Sheraton is quite ornate and beckons all guests, welcoming them in from the 110+ deg F (43 deg C) heat outside.
An unusual looking building in downtown Kuwait City. Not sure what this building is for.
Sorry to bore you with this seemingly trivial detail but one of the chores I have to run along with any run into the city is my weekly stocking up of groceries. I bring along an ice chest (and ICE) to protect and preserve my food from the blistering heat inside the car's trunk (or 'boot' as the Brits might say). Today's haul cost me 21.38 KD or about $74 USD (60 Euros).
Some good news to report!! I have been informed that our local Al Zour Starbucks may be opening up in a week or so. The Starbucks located along Highway 40 near the Al Zour turnoff was closed down by the Kuwaiti authorities over one year ago because the owner apparently had no official license. Or so the story goes. I just hope they open this Starbucks real soon!! Dozens of us expats will be pleased!!
4 comments:
I enjoy even the trivial. Keep those grocery cart shots!
thanks for the culinary capture here, TC! Yum! And from one coffee to another, keepin' my fingers crossed for your Starbucks out there!! ; )
Rita:
I'll try to capture some of the other seemingly trivial or mundane aspects to my daily life here in "Paradise" and post them as time permits.
Hindsfeet:
I must confess, the Starbucks store looks deserted on the inside. Hard to believe they may be opening real soon but my fingers are crossed as well ...
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