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Ruby training, half a world away

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2016-05-14 18:39:19 - Graham Ellis

Picking up after tooooo long a break; the last month has been overfilled!

I'm writing this on Monday - about Saturday, when I left home at 6 a.m. for a journey out to give a course in Saudi Arabia .... no direct flights London to Dammam, so travelled with Gulf Air and a stopover in Bahrain. A driver picked me up and I'm staying at the guest house on the Saudi Aramco compound / complex at Dharhan, and presenting a Ruby course here. A couple of examples to follow ;-)



The flight from Bahrain to Dammam was just 20 minutes - and it scarcely felt worth it, as theres a causeway too - which is how I arrived last time. But alas - visa rules have changed and first arrival on a visa is only allowed by air these days. So here's an overhead view as we came in ...