Bah....RAIN?!!

We got out of Sepang circuit at about 1am and were at the airport again a few hours later, Bahrain bound. Was the race still going ahead? Were we going to face riots? Were we going to be ok?... Tired....  Having no sleep helped with the flight! First time I've ever slept for most of the journey! I can't sit still for long, I get fidgety and need to wander around! Writing this from my window seat on the plane back from Bahrain, I am distracting myself from asking the man next to me to move for the 3rd time! I'm like a child.... All the boys are sleeping, I wish I could!!!! This plane is full of a few F1 teams. Its funny seeing us all on a plane on the way home, everyone fast asleep and totally shattered! (except fidgety in the corner, wanting to do laps of the plane!)

Anyway back to Bahrain....We arrived on Monday night and made our way to the hotel. It was hot and the sights on the way, inappropriately, reminded me of scenes out of Call of Duty.  We stayed at an awesome hotel. We had a beach, massive pool and about 6 restaurants to choose from within the complex. What I noticed about the hotel straight away was that I immediately found lots of amazing photo opps! The lighting was pretty cool and made for good photos! I hope my little camera got the photos I think i took in my head!  I love being by the sea so was happy to find a beach. I could sit and listen to the sea for hours. Although saying that, if I go on holiday, I can't sit and sunbathe all day... An hour and I'm ready to go exploring! This job has changed me a little bit though, I'm learning to appreciate time to just sit and 'be'. Especially when you're shattered, it's becoming easier to want to just sit on a beach in a hammock all day and do nothing but dream that I'm chilling on my private island, amazing beach hut ( that I built myself), palm trees swaying and watching the sunset....my neighbour, calling me when the marshmallows are roasted ;) (he shares my dream so I've built him a hut too) . I live in this dream world quite a lot lately. And one day I'm gonna find this place and I'll be posting a blog from there!

Boom, back to reality and I'm cabling up a garage again the next morning. Was pretty hard to leave the mechanics on the beach playing football while we put on our team kit and went in to the  circuit' The weather in Bahrain was hot, but a nice hot. We're in the middle of a desert so it's a dry heat not humid like Malaysia and Singapore are.  Nice weather for chilling on a beach! ;) We didn't see any violence or protests whilst in Bahrain. What everyone else was watching on the news we were quite oblivious to in a sense.  If we didn't know what was going on from the worried texts from home and the Internet and news, you wouldn't have even known the country was in turmoil.  I've found that doing this job, we always go in and build a garage which have different layouts but look similar so once it's built and we are working as normal, you could be anywhere. There has been times of tiredness when I've had to think about where we are and what language or money we are meant to be using!

The race this week was disappointing. The atmosphere in the garage was tense and in my opinion no one can be blamed for anything. We're all one team and when these things happen we should stick together. After the race I read some comments on Twitter which I wanted to respond to but I'd probably get in trouble so thought it better not to. As much as people criticise what we do and say they could do it better, in reality, I'd like to see them try. You have no idea what this job is like until you've done it, and it's not as glamourous and easy as it may look. I cannot describe how we feel, physically and mentally, sometimes and the enormity of the pressure we can be under.  I speak for myself but im sure others will agree.
That's enough on that subject. Bring on Spain!

Now I'm looking forward to getting back to England. Even if it is for just a few days. I have a day off and a few days in the factory before I am on a plane again so it'll be nice to catch up with friends I haven't seen for months, and to have some normality. Even just being on one time zone so I don't have to wonder what time it is back in UK to have a conversation with someone!

The Paddock late at night, or should I say early morning...

Entrance to the circuit