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Canadian in Riyadh

http://canadianinriyadh.blogspot.com/

A young unemployed Canadian woman documents her life abroad as an expat housewife in Saudi Arabia. Find out about compound life, and what early retirement is all about.

• Added on: Mar 30th, 2009
• Country: Saudi Arabia
• Language: English

• Author: canadian in riyadh
• Listed in: Middle East Culture
• Tags: women expat canadian riyadh compound

Recent Posts

• Pets or Pests?

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 20:07

  Are you a cat lover? You are? Okay, then we're enemies.CATS. There's an arrogance about them. The way they ignore you when you call them. They do what they want, when they want. How is there even a comparison to dogs? Dogs are eager to please, they w...

• Red Sands Hash

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 03:53

  This is one of the most memorable hashes I have been on. It's totally worth the effort to make it out to the desert. A good portion of the desert around Riyadh is rocky and dull, but these dunes were really beautiful. We got up to the top of one of t...

• where do I get that thing I need? aka shopping for newcomers

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 02:45

  I know when we first got to Riyadh, we had a whole host of things we believed that Riyadh did not have until we found out where to go to get them. I'm patching together a long and rambling list of that kind of stuff from memory, for all of you new ar...

• piggy buntered

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 16:05

  I've learned a new british slang term. In certain parts of Britain, if you're a certain type of British lady, and you are feeling absolutely stuffed after a meal, you might comment to your friends that you're "piggy buntered"This is not to be confus...

• more on bbq\'s

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 15:54

  So, yours truly has gone through someone else' trash and come away with a new/old barbeque. Yes, I'm pleased with myself, because in a country that does not recycle, I have defied the status quo of the establishment.Oh hell. I just love getting stuf...

• Cristal

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 01:29

  There's lots of good restaurants in Riyadh, but I have to say that Cristal is one of the best ones they have here. It's real fine dining. Cristal is located on the ground floor of the Faisaliah and it's almost always empty if you arrive when it opens...

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