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Kuwait View

This is for people who lived in Kuwait a long time ago – like pre-invasion – and still think of Kuwait as a sleepy, spacious little city. It is taken from near the Marina Mall, a mall that has an overpass across Gulf road to take shoppers to the Marina Crescent, a collection of many restaurants with indoor and outdoor seating.

This is a view looking north, toward Kuwait City:
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This is a view looking south:
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February 19, 2008 - Posted by | Building, ExPat Life, Kuwait

12 Comments »

  1. Marina Residence?!

    kinano's avatar Comment by kinano | February 19, 2008 | Reply

  2. Exactly right! 🙂

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | February 19, 2008 | Reply

  3. nice place to live but not in this dusty weather 🙂

    Amu's avatar Comment by Amu | February 19, 2008 | Reply

  4. I went to soug sharg yesterday and felt sorry for it! Its empty! ra7at 3alaih LOL 3ad I like it!!

    Ansam's avatar Comment by Ansam | February 19, 2008 | Reply

  5. I’ve been to Souq Sharq recently and it wasn’t empty but it was filled with wrong type of people. But I still think that Souq Sharq’s marina and the cafes overlooking it as the best marina in town.

    ???'s avatar Comment by ??? | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  6. marina residence 😛

    error's avatar Comment by error | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  7. Yea, I can’t even recognize for sure where this photo was taken. It’s all changed since 1994…

    Global Gal's avatar Comment by Global Gal | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  8. Amu, a lot of these newer high rises are pretty air tight.

    Ansam – I don’t really much like malls, but it IS sad, so many malls, so few people.

    ??? – I agree with you about the beautiful marina – I love all the old fishing boats.

    error – Yep! Beautiful place, hmmm?

    Global Gal – that’s why I took the photos. I was thinking of you, and of a friend in Zambia who lived here as a little girl.

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  9. We’re crawling up to civilization and it’s taking us ages.

    @ amu: Man that’s not dust, that’s a special kind of fog. ;P

    MacaholiQ8's avatar Comment by MacaholiQ8 | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  10. So many malls so few people?! LOL its like so many malls still not enough to fit all these ppl 😛

    Chirp's avatar Comment by Chirp | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  11. Mac – Q8 has some fabulous residences. Apartments here are the size of houses in the US. Houses – holy smokes! Very few houses in the US are so solidly built or so HUGE.

    Chirp – I don’t like to go on the weekends when I am guessing all the people go. When I go, they seem pretty empty!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | February 20, 2008 | Reply

  12. I have always thought Kuwait in the pre-invasion years exuded more class and style than it does now. For sure, back then Kuwait was light years ahead of its other Mideastern neighbors but that was then and this is now.
    In a certain sense, and I mean you no disrespect Salem Mubarak Street in particular, has lost its European charm becoming more Bronx less Knightsbridge.

    anonymous's avatar Comment by anonymous | February 21, 2008 | Reply


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