On a cold and overcast morning in mid-December we headed east – my wife and I – on I-10, past the towers of downtown Houston and industrial plants, and then south on the 610 east loop, over the ship channel bridge and then east again on Texas Independence Highway. We drove through the industrial landscape […]
Archive | December, 2014
Family day out on the al-Khobar corniche
This article features some of the photographs I took over the last four weekends, during which I took my family to the corniche in the city of al-Khobar. This is one of the three main cities in this part of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia; the others being Dammam and Dhahran. All three cities […]
dr. Cafe Coffee on the al-Khobar corniche
The weather has been great recently in al-Khobar, on the Arabian Gulf, in eastern Saudi Arabia. The temperature has been in the mid-70s (around 25 Celsius) during the day, I would say, and the evenings have been considerably cooler. For the past few weekends I have taken my family to the corniche and we have enjoyed […]