Another gap in the blog posts because I’ve again been away without the laptop. At rather short notice I was asked to go to Dammam for a meeting with some people from our company’s overseas partner.
On the way to the airport I was finally able to take a few photos of a large complex adjacent to the airport road. I’ve worked out that it is a large university campus for ladies
The accommodation blocks
The university mosque on the right with admin and lecture rooms in the large building to the left.
More of the admin complex with a large poster of the current and two previous kings. These signs are everywhere.
Last building in the complex.
The university frontage must stretch for more than two kilometres and as the students can’t drive…. Oops… are not allowed to drive! There must be a bus service to get them around the campus. One wonders about the expense of educating females only to not allow them to have a career? Perhaps there is a hidden motive on the part of some in authority knowing that one day this rule will change!
Of course no drive to the airport can be completed without passing the obligatory crash. This time it was a taxi which looks like it ran off the road and hit a traffic sign.
Having observed the speed they do and the aggressive technique I’m not surprised that all taxi’s have signs of collision damage.
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