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Friday Market

At the Friday Market

Friday Market

Another visit to the Friday market. This little chap must have been one expensive buy!! :-)

The Friday Market

Shopping area in Fahaheel

Shopping

Most items available from 100fils to 300fils (Less than 1US$)

(Above) Refrigerator magnates [Notice the small, cute Nescafe bottles at the bottom)

(Above) Bath massage thing

Perfume Shop

A perfume shop located in the Scientific Centre.

Ikea

Needs no explaination. It's huge on the outside and inside.

Round Door

Loved that door! Cesare Paciotti luxury brand for shoes, bags, belts, eyewear, jewels.

Sale

I didn't see a single customer in the shop!!

Bread Talk

Bread talk has different types of flavoured bread ... cinnamon, sesame, mango etc. It also sells pastries, cakes, donuts etc. The building houses mostly Westerners and there's 24 hour strict security for this building.

At the Petrol Pump

Stopped to fill Petrol/Gas. Rarely will you find pumps that are too crowded. Petrol is 0.60 fils per litre. That comes to US$. 0.219 / UK GBP 0.109 / Indian Rs.8.70. Yup! It's pretty cheap in the land of black gold!

Chicken & Duck

The Chicken seller was delighted when I requested he pose for the pic. I also saw a lonely duck among the chickens.

All that glitters

Visited the gold souk (market) in the city to buy a small gift for a friend. This huge gold set with a very Indian design caught my eye. It must be costing a bomb. Most probably, a bride to be would buy it.

Bakala

This is a corner store or kiosk or, as they call it in Arabic, a "Bakala". ("Bak" rhymes with "Luck", so it's pronounced Bak (as in Luck) -aah-laa) Mostly run by Iranians or South Indians, these `bakalas' have everything you'd need in an Emergency or if you are just too busy or lazy to drive to the Government Cooperatives or private Malls.

I'm lovin' it

No dearth of McDonald's in Kuwait. I don't eat it as often as I'd love to. Ooooh! I'm lovin' it!

Little Moppet

Baby Nikita - clicked in the Ace Hardware showroom in one of the display wash basins. No... she didn't object!