Bahrain Banks Association

The Bahrain Banks Association? Where the heck is Bahrain? Isn't that the little filthy rich island nation in the South Pacific? Oh, no, that's Brunei, which occupies a small part of Borneo. Bahrain is in the Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, another tiny, filthy rich country, and just down the shore from Kuwait and Iraq. Yeah, okay, another filthy rich, tiny little country. You know, there are getting to be a lot of these things. Someone should do an inventory sometime.

Anyway, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a reception for the Bahrain Banks Association in Bahrain today. Well, isn't that special. U.S. business community making nice with rich foreigners. Maybe they'll lend us a couple of trillion dollars. That seems to be our stock in trade these days, borrowing money.

Here's what caught my eye. This is at the Southern end of the island and is easily visible on Google Maps. The ring road is approximately a mile and a half in diameter. I suspect it's a housing development. Seems to be the latest fad in the Mid-East.

Bahrain Circular Development

Via Just An Earth Bound Misfit.

Update February 2016. Replaced embedded map with screen shot. Could not persuade the embedded map to show the correct area.