After leaving Amsterdam and a short stop-over in Kuwait, we arrived in Bahrein airport at a little passed midnight.On board the meal was provided by the kitchen of Peter Goossens from the restaurant Hof van Cleve, which in itself would be top of the bill, but for my taste wasn't worth the three stars he's known for. But then again, maybe I'm not easily satisfied.
The flight attendants were also kinda lost in figuring out which jacket belonged to which chair. Seemed they mixed up the tags for that one ... bummer.
We went through customs fairly well ( I got a small refund for the broken suitcase I received) and then straight on to KSA.
Our driver, mister Abdul, took us to the Saudi Arabian customs and believe it or not : that went like a piece of cake.
By the time we arrived at the guesthouse in Al Khubar it was 02.30am already. The envelope on the table thought us that the next morning we were gonna be picked up by another driver to take us straight to SAAD hospital for the medical tests. So after a very short night of sleep we were all ready to have our blood drawn from our arms, our athletic bodies X-rayed and sculptured muscles weighed and measured. It took them less then an hour. Please don't comment on this phrase ;-)
After the medical, we met David Welby who cleared out the adminstative part of the things we need to get done to get our Iqama (permit to work and re-enter the KSA).
After this we went straight to Jubail to meet the security officers and to have a briefing on the things they expect from us. Then the appartments were assigned which made me and Johan very happy, but was a real dissapointment to Paul. And he's got every reason to it, because they put him in a realy small dormroom. Hopefully they will re-assign him to another place soon.
It was 16.00pm already when we finally had something to eat at the Murjan Village Restaurant.
Realy good food and prices like they were in Belgium 15 years ago.
Tonight we will meet up with the other guys of TRA whom been here some time already.
Take care ya'all.
The flight attendants were also kinda lost in figuring out which jacket belonged to which chair. Seemed they mixed up the tags for that one ... bummer.
We went through customs fairly well ( I got a small refund for the broken suitcase I received) and then straight on to KSA.
Our driver, mister Abdul, took us to the Saudi Arabian customs and believe it or not : that went like a piece of cake.
By the time we arrived at the guesthouse in Al Khubar it was 02.30am already. The envelope on the table thought us that the next morning we were gonna be picked up by another driver to take us straight to SAAD hospital for the medical tests. So after a very short night of sleep we were all ready to have our blood drawn from our arms, our athletic bodies X-rayed and sculptured muscles weighed and measured. It took them less then an hour. Please don't comment on this phrase ;-)
After the medical, we met David Welby who cleared out the adminstative part of the things we need to get done to get our Iqama (permit to work and re-enter the KSA).
After this we went straight to Jubail to meet the security officers and to have a briefing on the things they expect from us. Then the appartments were assigned which made me and Johan very happy, but was a real dissapointment to Paul. And he's got every reason to it, because they put him in a realy small dormroom. Hopefully they will re-assign him to another place soon.
It was 16.00pm already when we finally had something to eat at the Murjan Village Restaurant.
Realy good food and prices like they were in Belgium 15 years ago.
Tonight we will meet up with the other guys of TRA whom been here some time already.
Take care ya'all.
Ok,seems you had a long day yesterday!!!
ReplyDeleteToday looked also quite busy.They don't lose time there,do they? But maybe i forgot you're there to work :).....Take care!
Well, it's hard to believe we need to work here aswell, but it is ... probably one of these days they will load our desks (when we have 'em) full of procedures and start-up guidances. I'll update later this evening, we're about to go fitness ;-)
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