I’ll bet that for the majority of you the thought of leaving a single relatively small window open for other than security reasons has never been an issue. Ah….well, let’s just say that from now on I won’t be doing that! My apartment is on the 19th floor of a very nice building in Bahrain so leaving a small window open for the fresh sea air never seemed like it should be an issue. My thinking is that unless a professional window washer or Spiderman wanted into my apartment I had nothing to worry about…..oh, now wrong could I be!!

Have you all ever heard of this little phenomenon called a sand/dust storm? Well….let’s just say that I got to experience “nature” throughout my apartment recently! Evidently the current “season” here is now DUST STORM!  I think I missed the “rainy season”, must have fallen asleep or something that day!

Anyway, it’s been days since the intrusion of dirt from the “most severe dust storm in recent times” and I’m still cleaning up.  I had to buy a vacuum with HEPA filtering because this dust is so incredibly fine it would go right through a normal vacuum.  Bought a mop, bucket, dusting spray, a duster…..a rather hefty investment but I was too embarrassed to tell the front desk and have housekeeping clean it up.  I’ve also purchases a box of surgical masks so I’m prepared for the next “storm”!!

Back to cleaning!

Dirt on and in my espresso machine!!

Pushed the dirt with the dust mop so you could see how much there was….

The culprit window is just above this….

The kitchen….