Diet Pepsi

I bought this today at the store. It's in English on the other side of the can. Many familiar products have Arabic on them. There are a surprising amount of US products here, but some of them are every expensive. However, a can of pop is only about 25 to 30 cents (one Saudi Riyal).

First Full Day in Saudi

February 5th 2009
Ba ba ba, ba ba Dhahan - Beach Boys The Aramco compound, in Dhahran is about 30 in-land from Al Khobar. This evening I took the bus with another consultant to Al Khobar because two of the consultants are staying there (because of a shortage of apartments here). Al Khobar is a much larger town than Dhahran. It was great to get into the "real" Saudi Arabia, but it's disconcerting to s ... read more

Middle East » Saudi Arabia » Dhahran

In 1902, ABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman Al Saud captured Riyadh and set out on a 30-year campaign to unify the Arabian Peninsula. A son of ABD AL-AZIZ rules the country today, and the country's Basic Law stipulates that the throne shall remain in the ... ... read more

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