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Bored in Jeddah

So I'm in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and it's pretty much what I expected: Extremely hot (42 degrees) and totally boring. All you can (could) do is eating, sleeping, working and shopping. The food is very good though but forget your glass wine or beer to go with it. You'll learn to appreciate a fine glass of pepsi though. I flew here with Saudi Arabian airlines. What a disaster! The crappiest airline ever. Stone-age aircraft, tasteless food, censored movies and crappy service even in business class. Not to mention that they don't serve alcohol. On the plus side of the trip I have to mention the very friendly people here. It feels pretty save (although I haven't been in the city on my own yet) and if you're lucky you can even watch football on television (in arabic though). Here's a foto of the view from the hotel. On the bottom right you can see the useless military post guarding the hotel from potential terrorist attacks. Oh and the huge smoke you can see in the harbour is somewhat a fire that broke out this morning. It's gone by now though.. Anyway enjoy your time in a free country - and don't take it for granted!

das war natürlich hart!

Sieg und Niederlage liegen manchmal nahe beieinander... aber schauen wir nach vorne.. auf den nächsten Match gegen Portugal wo wir völlig entspannt zuschauen können. Das ist gut für die Nerven, die Lebern und die Lungen der Schweizer..!