Sunday, October 17, 2010

Driving in Saudi Arabia (Alan's Country)

Unlike New Zealanders in my country we drive on the right side of the road and we have been doing that for around 100 year when the first car came which was an American ford.
Females In my country was not allowed to drive expect for special needs, which Is in my opinion is a treating of a princesses where her father, brother, uncle, son and son in law responsibility  to be her privet driver and body grad, which will not change even when she start driving by herself her males are more than welcome to do their role. Despite that I have tutored my younger sister how to drive when she got 18 in case of emergences
man In my country gets his first driving license at the age of 18, with this license he is only allowed to drive locally till the age of 20 when he gets his full license, which nowadays are in both Arabic and English and can be used instead of the passport in some of the gulf countries like Bahrain and UAE.
Speeding in my country used to be a big problem, but in the last couple of years many new speeding cameras were installed and new secret police cars were add, the max speed in residential areas is 60 m/h while in the motor-way it’s between 100-120 m/h .
and i live you with some pictures:

1 comment:

  1. Hi Alan,

    I really enjoyed seeing those winding roads way up high in the mountains when we saw the Saudi Arabian video last term. Crazy roads! Imagine needing to sneeze... you'd drive off the cliff.

    In terms of feedback, you need to be careful with commas. You sometimes overuse commas when you should end the sentence. In the last paragraph, there should be a new sentence after 'police cars were added'...

    However, after 'despite that' you do need a comma because it acts like a pause when speaking.

    Thanks for adding photos - always good to see.
    Carolyn

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