on the street & at the game: النصر
. . . it means, victory, a popular name for a sports club, an arena, and a team, particularly one Ronaldo plays for, which we will get to. . .
holding the traffic up, MrBeast was shooting a video on the motorway in a private jet, on the way back from the gold market, where
Boulevard City, Riyadh, the Western consensus & the hypocritical oaf
. . . we took the next best option to Boulevard World, recently opened, Boulevard City. What does it mean?
Sensory overload.
I had this song playing in my head . . . but it's too early for a music break. . .
We thought at first, shopping, that's what it's about,
shoe shopping night swimming
not always adjacently placed, but always thematically linked, tall double doors for the owning family, low single door for the staff. (see note at the bottom of this post.)
a cat introduces Qasr al Hokm metro station:
further and better photos of the foregoing:
interesting zone, this, souqs and the
KSA's 30 years of reunification 1902–1932, Al Masmak most resembles a castle, & stinky cycling
Al Masmak contained an exhibition dedicated to the emblem of Saudi Arabia, adopted in 1950, of two crossed swords, denoting the Kingdom of Hejaz (see link) and the Sultanate of Najd (land of triangles), with a palm tree, symbolising growth and prosperity and delicious dates, from which once tasted fresh
one sunset after another supermarket
(but before that, another day:)
. . . this one spent on the hunt for a simcard. . . in vain; that evening I ended up purchasing a Maya esim; a fraction of the cost for the same network, Zain, of Airalo, it seems more native to these parts. . .
. . . keeping with the theme, I must
Al Qasab & Ushaiquer أشيقر وَ القصب
That Q gestures towards the loop symbol with the two dots above it, diaeresis, with which the same symbol with one dot, F, makes a glottal stop-like caught-in-your-throat hard K, with which the ك is not to be confused, the soft k; German friends joked only English would have a