A Diary of a New Town
Looking fuller and more like a typical Kuwaiti suburb, Google Earth have updated again recently and the above is the current view. No new roads are visible, which means the next update will look much more complete. There are signs of the preliminary work done on the main routes.
If you’re interested in how it looked before, click here for how it looked in March 2007; and here for February 2009.
Photo by BitJockey. More here.
I arrived this morning from a business trip. When I read on 248am and Nicole B blogs about a spill near the North Pier, I headed straight to the beach and saw the action there. There were two security cars. Having just arrived from 12 hour flight, the last thing I wanted to do is argue about taking photos. I chickened out – so please click the links in this post for more information.
It’s been a long time since I posted a photo here… I need to spend some more time on this – but it’s been a busy month.
This was taken in Mangaf south of the Hilton Resort. It was a perfect morning for a nice sunrise shot. Nice to be able to highlight an area of the town that doesn’t need to be built… It’s perfect just the way it was created.
Bye for now…
The new part of Mangaf is all houses and schools but this should provide you with a different perspective. The buildings closer (on the left of the photo) come under Fahaheel but the ones in the distance are Mangaf-by-Sea.
Still no roads on my side of town – which can be fun at times but is usually a pain…
I took this photo recently of the roads near the coastal road (The Hilton Resort) and they’ve erected the posts to hold the street lamps…. I know it sounds a little sad but I’m really excited that we will be having LIGHT AT NIGHT!
Can’t wait for the road network to reach us – but for some reason nothing is happening on that front.
Watch this space…
