Hope it is not deemed off topic now but would like to add some of my childhood pictures from Aden, taken by dad or mum (sorry about quality, they are old and scanned in:
Me in the Lido at Khormakser, safer than Elephant Bay, although the sharks were still scary through the fence:
The 'corner shop' and flats:
and finally a general view from behind the flats, lovely playground for mischievous kids: