April 28th 2010 late night - Back in Riyadh

Back at the Holiday Inn in Riyadh I'm going to sleep 'cause it's so much late, but before that I briefly post continuing from where we had arrived in the previous episode ...

After the fried chicken experience at Al baik, we take Brian to the Airport (he's continuing the journey to the Emirates) and the rest of us goes to the Jeddah AHCSC offices with Khaild; his office is beautiful, with a large wood desk, a leather sofa and, most of all, a Nespresso coffee machine. We can’t resist and take a good espresso (and least me and Roberto, while Youssef prefers a turkish coffee) and then we take a picture with some of the AHCSC-OLAYAN team in Jeddah.



We then go to the last appointment of this intense 5 days of hospital visits, and meet the Deputy Director of the Dr. Bakhsh Hospitals Group; Rania Bakhsh, the doughter of the founder, pays great attention to our presentation and the conversation with her and the Chief of Medical Staff is very positive.

The trip is almost over; on our way to the airport Youssef drives the rented car to the rental shop and has some difficulties with the automatic gear (and also because the car is so huge you almost need and interphono to talk to the guys in the last row) and then Khalid, who’s driving an amazing white Lexus, takes us to see some typical shops in the old city of Jeddah and we take a last couple of pictures. In the last picture there’s only one of the guys still wearing tie and jacket: guess who’s going home and who’s to stay some more days in KSA?







Before getting on board again, I tell Khalid of bananas, nuns and other strange train characters (see posts before …) and then the team finally divides: I get to the national flights terminal and say goodbye to Roberto and Youssef. We’re looking forward to possibly see Khalid in Italy, but I guess we’ll be back in Jeddah sooner than that. And now the adventure is due to continue in Riyadh … with the people you learnt to know (Majid and his colleagues) and some more to come!

PS: As I started the Internet connection I immediately went to corriere.it and see the result of the return match Barcellona-Inter. The more you're far from Italy, the more your national pride rises! Sorry for the friends at TBS ES ...