The photo was taken here.
I was out and about and even ended up trying to take a shortcut back to the office to avoid a traffic jam and ending up going in a big circle! It is hard to keep the bearings when you can’t even tell where the sun is coming from to help your sense of direction.
It was very clear today on the drive to site. You can see Kuwait City across the bay about 25 km to the south. You can here or click on the photo for a larger version.
The blue marker on the map below is from where the photo was taken.
View Kuwait City across the bay in a larger map
Wow it’s 2012 2015 2019 2020 and this post continues to be one of my most popular ones! I didn’t expect this. Well no hot dates here unless you want a link to recipes to bake some nice date squares or some bacon wrapped dates!
The kind of dates that this post is about are the ones that grow on date palms. I imagine that this post gets many visitors interested in the other kind of dates. Well if you arrive here for that reason, you are better off to go to other sites for online dating, to meet other singles, find love, relationships, a soulmate, marriage, girlfriend, boyfriend or whatever. But if you are here to learn about the amazing date palm, read on a bit. And I’ll continue to add to this post over time with more information about dates. I am slowly going through the book, The Date Palm: From Traditional Resource to Green Wealth (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research)
Recently date palms were sprouted from 2000 year old seeds.
Here’s a late 2019 article on Dates in the Paleo Diet
Dates are an amazing food, full of nutrients and of many varieties. The date palm as food has been used by people in the Arabian Gulf for over 7500 years. In 2001 world date production was 5.4 million tons and increasing at about 5% a year. The top five date producing countries in 2001 were Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iraq.
Though if you want to fix a spinal injury, you better go for the blue M&Ms!
Here’s another blog post on dates with further information in its comments including a link to a map showing where the dates market is (look at the x in the middle of the map). I’m going shopping for dates on 8 August and will report on my success. I want to get a selection of the very best quality dates.
The Kuwait Times has this article saying Kuwait dates are available early this year but the best are yet to arrive.
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Click here for the list. You’ll find some interesting uses that you can’t resist.
But it won’t let me embed maps any more. I think it may be because I’m in Kuwait?
I finally went out diving. The highlight was while doing a drifting 5 meter safety stop I saw a couple dark shapes coming by on my left about 2 meters away and going very fast and it was — some dolphins! Then we surfaced and the dolphins regrouped about 20 meters away and then were gone. It was hard to tell how many but I think about four of them.
