The criminal used tyres!

Well who would have thought how difficult it is to get used tyres in Bahrain. Its a serious criminal offence!!

Why? I hear you ask. Well since the uprising here no man - local or expat can buy or take used tyres, just in case they have this uncontrollable urge to burn tyres in the middle of the street and cause a riot. So its actually an advantage to be a female in Bahrain, as you never know when you have this desire to drag tyres around the place.

Because transportation didn't manage to get me any, myself and a female friend, who has lived here for a long time, set off to hunt these elusive gender specific tyres.  The area she took me to was called Salmabad which is an industrial area that has the highest concentration of backstreet garages in such a condensed area I have never seen before. It was chaos. With all states of cars just left in the middle of the road it was like a slalom course through car parts and crashed vehicles. With cars being driven any side of the road you feel like driving today.

We finally found a place that would give us two tyres, when my friend told me just tell them you're going to use it to put plants in if they ask, as if you try and explain you're going to the North Pole they will 1. Think you're crazy 2. As being female what else would they think you would do with tyres except put plants in them lol.

Only in Bahrain :)

As an aside and unknown to me at the time this was where some of the major uprisings actually took place, where the tyres were burnt funnily enough.