I came again to Bahrain yesterday, staying in my favorite place the Phoenecia Center Appartments.

It's rather windy and the air is full of sand and dust right now.

Amazing, my beloved open WiFi-Hotspot "SpeedtouchC41110" at the bus station in front of the Sea Shell Hotel is still there, so I can check out for mobile broadband offers from Vodafone here in Bahrain, as the 78 BD (around 150EUR) Batelco charges for the USB broadband adapter seemed me a little much.

Sure, it doesn't sound like "the next big thing", but after weeks of sporadicly trying to locate a store/dealer/supplier/whatever for paper rolls, I was almost hopeless to finally find a source. But today I took most of the day to search on the web and call around for paper rolls. And after a company that offers spiral/paper rolls on their website but hardly deny that they're producing such things, and another company where I got put through half a dozen people on the phone, I found a producing company in Sharjah which offer them for reasonable pricing,

Nice, so I should be able to start shipping prints soon.

We finally found a source for aluminum frames in Dubai. After visiting the Picasso Gallery, a frames store which got recommended to me to ask for aluminum frames, we just also entered the nearby Le Cadre, and voila, we stood in front of a very well sorted choice of nielsen aluminum frames.

While waiting for my flight to Bahrain at the Airport of Sharjah, we got informed to move from gate 6 to gate 4. While changing the gates, a girl came into my field of view. She weared an Abaya like all local girl here do, but it was adorned with big golden letters. Looking a little closer, it showed up it were the letters "Dior". Well, that's what I call market adaption!

If you're looking for someone doing the job perfectly, without flaws and thousand excuses afterwards, for why it's so different from well done, you've a hard time in the emirates.

So, I went through "hell" while looking for a printing company that will match my needs, expectations, and sense and understanding of quality and perfection.

But at the end it worked out fine for me, and I found a very fine printing press company with a very good sense of customer service and relations.

The first unexpected happening was the response time of only some hours and the highly professional quote.

... to be continued ...