Half and Half

Went to a different compound yesterday to have dinner. This was at the Romaizan. The food there is very good. According to the people who have been in Riyadh for years this compound has the best food in all of all. I did not get to see the rest of the peace, but they say its a bit shabby compared to the place we stayed in.... I don't know it seems ok to me.

I had my first half and half in this place. This is half “grape juice” and sprite. Its very refreshing. Think we plan to go there a few more time when I get back so we will see.

I am at the airport now. I am a bit early.... this was the plan to get a few tobacco products for my friends BUT there is as usual the plans get messed up. NO shops in the airport. Just food and drink ...

Dune Buggy

We went on quad bikes a few weekends ago. It was cool!!!.

Took us a while to find the place. A guy in out team had been there before but the road he said it was down was not finished :p So we needed to try to find what the correct way there. Eventual we got directions and got there.

The place was surreal. Was just one big long road and suddenly there were tuns of quad bikes on the side of the road. You can even see them on Google :p

Going fast on those dunes was a great laugh. We will be doing it again when I come back next year.

Kingdom

Well I kinda got lazy again.. sorry... I am going back to Edinburgh in a couple of days (Yay) though I would catch up on all I have been up to (not that much) before I leave.

I have been to the kingdom tower.. see picture. Its about 70 ish stories high. It looks very impressive but I still think it looks like a giant bottle opener. Google the “Kingdom tower” and you will see what I mean. The view from there is nice, but it drives home the point that there is nothing in Riyad. Even the centre around the tower there is huge blocks of land with nothing... just flat ground.

There is shopping centre in the bottom but the pound is very weak and its not realy any point in buying anything its so expensive here. We tried walking around the area but got fed up after 30mins and went back home :p