Habitat Jeddah

Today because of late sleep. I woke up at 9 am. I took bath and ate break fast . me with my camera took a taxi to Al Barad.I took a walk . It was amazing to see this old part,many old buildings.

then i go to King Fahd fountain.It was beautiful and i like this very much.It is largest fountain in world.then I go to Al baik to eat lunch .It is my best ever restaurant.Food is delicious,ymm

I take a taxi to Makkah.I get there in a hour.Highways was fantastic.

I reach at King Abdul aziz International Airport at 1:50 am. After early customs I was free at about 2:30 am . Airport was large but dirty . Peoples were not helpful .I took a cab to Radisson blu Hotel.

Hotel was nice . I get to my room and sleep.
I cant see Jeddah because I was very tired.

... however, the complete disregard of lanes or lane guides, and the folks who frequently make a left hand turn from the far right lane across four lanes of traffic. But it is loud, and colorful, and if you're not in a hurry to get anywhere can be interesting to watch. We always cause a stir because of our Emirati license plates, with people honking as they pass and/or staring.

One morning we decided to take the kids to the corniche and ...

Arrived at last on UK don't care if its freezing cold, if its snowing, if there are gales, even 5ft of snow I don't care.......I'm just happy that I am safe...didn't really want to say how much I was frightened the last few days and didn't want people to worry but the tears of relief when that plane took off I have never felt before ...

At airport she has booked me on the flight tonight from london so I will have to stay in London over night and get a flight Sunday. She was really horrible this morning never even told me about my flights she left the house with not saying a word gave my passport to the guard and told then not to give me it till I was through immigration!!!! Think she sent the most run down car she could find to take me ...

Well I hope I will be on a flight tomorrow Saturday, finger crossed as yet I have not been told anything, not been given my passport back with exit visa, tickets etc etc. But the agency assures me it will be OK tomorrow!! The last few days have been very scary for me and very worrying as you hear so many stories, I just don't know if I ever want to come back it has been an experience to say the least.......mmmmm might write a book ...

... But another good thing came out of yesterday, I was talking to the girl I was out with and she said why don't I apply for a job in a school out here as a Teaching Assistant. Wages are about £500/£550 a week, you get a furnished villa in a compound, you get help with return airfares, you get 10 days off at Easter, 10 at Christmas, 7 at Eid and nearly 3 months in the summer and you get paid for those as, also you are off Thursday and Friday and every evening. So that would mean I ...

Sorry I have not done much on my Travel Pod but not really got the heart or mind to do it maybe after a week or so I might!! Need to get a leats a few photos before the end of March. At least I can say it was an experience and it will make me stronger as a person.

... half past one we maybe had thirty people in the club including everyone that went to a class!!!! i talked to all of them but cant remember their names! they all seem very nice Adan happy to have me here. the other trainer is also teaching me Arabic as well i have Learnt the words for chair, hand and bag. so its starting with the easy words and working my way up! I've made some good friends here and have been invited out to watch the footie on Wednesday ...

The trip felt like a journey into another time and place. The western luxury of steel, glass and abstract architecture combined with the ancient arabic roots of this original Muslim holy land. I noticed monuments dedicated to the globe, expansion, desert culture and future modernism in the middle of every traffic roundabout; stone walls around stone houses surrounded by nothing but desert; and skyscrapers bent modernly towards the ancient ...