It's a weird world that of the expats. In the construction business, we tend to live a cyclic life: we're sent somewhere new, take some time to adapt to a new life, find friends, occupations, and once we're finally settled in, the construction project our husbands are working on is usually coming to an end, and we face one question: what next? Then follows a more or less short period of indecision, with a more or less high number of work proposals, which have you imagine your future life in each of these destinations, and most of the time, you end up in the place you had least thought about. Richard and I are slowly reaching the end of this cycle, i.e. complete indecision, but that's not the purpose of this post.
The point is, as we make some friends we obviously talk about how long we've been here and for how long we're supposed to stay, and we can't help but try to compare and hope we'll stick together for as much time as possible. And then as we go on vacation we say goodbye, assured that we'll see each other on our return, but it's not always the case. My friend Loles went to Spain last November to give birth to a beautiful baby, whom everybody in Jubail was anxiously expecting, but she didn't come back. Her husband had been sent to Yanbu', on the western coast of Saudi Arabia, 300 km north of Jeddah.
That left me with no other option than to fly across the country to pay her and her family a visit! Yanbu' itself wouldn't have been worth a visit if it weren't for them. It's just another industrial city, very similar to Jubail. Which is why I took so few pictures. The compound Loles lives in is very nice though, much like a resort, which gives her some kind of compensation now that she's far away from the civilization (i.e. Bahrain!).
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| Flying over the huge desert of Saudi Arabia |
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| And landing under new skies |
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| The Cove compound |
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| The Cove compound |
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| Yanbu' |
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| Yanbu' |
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