In the afternoon 4 of us went to Al-Khubar for some "window-licking". Not much to talk about realy. What was striking this day is that the shoppingmall was loaded with Muslimahs ... realy ... a lot of them. Maybe they had a special day, or maybe it was just because I haven't been to this shopping mall before. Dhahran Mall is a big circle and has everything to offer for everyone : books, clothes, toys, perfumes, juwelry, foodstores, name it... they got it. Even iceskating, playgrounds, etc...
On the way back the driver explained the different license-plates that go around here (actually I asked him :-)) : white or the normal plates, the ones with both arab and ABC signs or the new ones, the ones with only arabic on it are the old plates. There's the the blue plates that refer to the car or truck being a company car (allthough I read that blue plates also refer to buses, meaning large numbers of persons transport). Black plates are export plates. Then there are the yellow plates refering to taxis and buses. I also saw red plates but the driver wasn't sure about those, and I couldn't find anything about them either.
When I asked him what has changed most in traffic during his 25 year career, he said the introduction of the speedcamera. Even today in the whole of Saoudi Arabia there's an average of 4 victims per hour (!) in traffic.
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