Stopover at Bahrain

On our flight to Bangkok we had to stop for one noght in bahrain, because of a tropical storm. It seemed that the time was full of storms, we had already waited in Frankurt for  one day in the hotel because of bad wheather conditions and all of us were sooooo tired. In the middle of the night we arrived in Bahrain, unfortunately our luggage did not. After some hours of talking we found out that it had arrived, but nobody knew that it was ours. Then we stood the whole night at the airport because the flight company had booked a first class hotel for us, but forgot to book busses to get there. At the hotel they tried to put us in three -bed-rooms with men and women mixed - in an Islamic country where even the taxi drivers and the waiters in the hotel didnt speak with me and a (female)friend until we found ouut that they waited for a man to accompany us, so they could talk to him. We made some trouble, so in the end we got a room with 2 girls and ONE free phone call. My roommate used it to phone for one our to her friends in Thailand. next day, although tired, we got up early to use the time until the flight to see some of the city. It was a great smell of sea in the air, and we took at taxi to the suuk.  Everybody seemed a little bit irritated of us, although we had put on "modest" clothing, probably because there just were no women on the streets. But still there was tourism, so I bought a camel (made in china) which sang oriental songs when you press on its body and we went to drink some tea. After a sufficient time in the restaurant we even found a waiter to bring us the tea without waiting for our "man" to come and order for us.Bahrain is a very modern and beautiful city, at the beach there was a russian spaceship exhibited, but unfortunately we had only one afternoon and the prices ( 8 dollar for a bottle of water in the hotel) were not so nice that I would come back. we also visited a mosque, which was equipped with modern television eqipment, because the sermons are broadcasted on state television, as the guide explained me. The loudspeakers, he told me proudly, are invisible installed inside the lamps and the headphones, as I found out, were 2Behringer", a German company and the same I had used in my job at Hambiurg Open Channel TV.