An Englishman In Saudi Arabia

One thing I hate about driving here is the tailgaters. On one of my first drives home from work I was doing 120 km/h down the freeway and th...

Anyone even remotely connected to Saudi Arabia knows about the muttawa. For those that don’t they are the basically the religious policemen ...

There is an online protest growing at the moment here in Saudi about the practice of shops (such as Carrefour) who never give you your chang...

Generally when a westerner sees one of those squatting toilets their hearts sink. I’m no different. I know it’s meant to be healthier for yo...

Car washing is big business here. It’s an easy way for workers to make a bit of extra money and (thanks to it being a bit on the sandy side ...

The cashier sent two lardo-ninjas packing and they were SO upset! He obviously wasn’t aware that they are more important than the rest of us...

It's been one week. How has my driving changed? I assume the minimum speed limit everywhere is 100 km/h. I’m fifteen rows back at the tr...

We’re going to miss you. Good luck in your new endeavour and stop trying to hide the fact you’ve got such a big heart. None of your friends ...

About two weeks ago though the weather suddenly turned and it’s now quite chilly. It rained yesterday (if you expand your definition of “rai...

Before we came to KSA we read reports from many westerners who had lived in Saudi saying that the Arabs were amongst the friendliest people ...

Unfortunately not in the “Shogun Assassin” style, but in the “I’m an ignorant git and I think I’m more important that you style”. The women ...

I am not a handsome man. Ladies do not stop me in the street to comment on how I “look like Brad Pitt, only cuter.” But the women here leer ...

I left work at 4pm to pick up my car because I didn't want my first experience driving in Saudi Arabia to be: a) during Wednesday (the S...

Today I returned to Shit Hospital so that my wife could do her medical for her multiple entry / exit visa. A colleague and his wife also acc...

It finally came through! It took a mere six weeks for my driver’s license to arrive from the UK via registered air mail! A word to the wise:...