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Trip to Al-Khobar 2012

by Lynz Real Cooking on November 30, 2015

There are funny little things that happen in Saudi especially in construction and design! So, the picture above is a house and that is it’s garage on the left. What is wrong with this picture???

 

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A cart for serving tea!

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A big past time in Saudi racing up the sand dune!

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The Corniche

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  1. JoHanna Massey #

    Love that tea-cart. It would look fairly silly in my small townhouse, but it would certainly be a conversation piece. How elegant to have high tea served from it.

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  2. Thumbup #

    Cool tea cart! Do people go swimming at the Corniche?

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    • Lynz Real Cooking #

      My kids tried to go in just with their toes and the locals said no no dirty! So I am not sure. Now please you post all kinds of cool things! so, tell me what is wrong with the picture? please?

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      • Thumbup #

        The tea cart? I really didn’t see anything wrong with it?

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        • Lynz Real Cooking #

          no the top picture

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        • Lynz Real Cooking #

          I updated and put more explanation! My kids returned for a visit and just had to capture this house they drove past!

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          • Thumbup #

            I already got it! Unbelievable! LOL!

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          • Lynz Real Cooking #

            hahaha yes I knew you would! I love your posts they are always unique, funny and sometime odd! 🙂

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          • Thumbup #

            Odd is right! You know for a while I was unable to leave comments at your site. It kept disappearing for quite a while then all of a sudden it’s working now. There’s another blogger who’s going through the same thing now and she’s all sad about it. Geez! Sup with that disappearing comments?

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          • Lynz Real Cooking #

            Well I found 38 comments in a weird pending zone type of thing, or in trash!! Yes the same has happened to me, I comment several times and it vanishes after I post it! Weird !!!!!

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          • Thumbup #

            I see!

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  3. apuginthekitchen #

    There looks like there is a pole blocking you from bringing a car into the garage. Is that right, hard to tell exact;y but that would not make sense if thats the case.

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  4. gadgetrush #

    Racing in the sand dune really? Nice past time..

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  5. Anita Kushwaha #

    The tea cart is stunning! And the traffic light in front of the garage is too funny! I guess the car isn’t coming in or out, ha ha!

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  6. bisimodupe1975 #

    Love the tea cart…beautiful. Hmmn…i hope the car race in the sand dune is not dangerous.

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    • Lynz Real Cooking #

      yes I hope so too! I have never really gone but the kids went when they visited!

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  7. milliethom #

    Whoever lives in that house (top pic) obviously doesn’t use the garage – not for keeplng the car in, anyway.Lol Perhaps they had access to it from inside and used it for storage or something. Still, that doesn’t excuse the idiotic position of the post! The tea trolley’s a bit too glitzy for my taste, but it would look good in the right setting. As for racing up a sand dune as a pastime… Well, I suppose if you’ve got sand dunes on your doorstep, you might as well make use of them!

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    • Lynz Real Cooking #

      hahaha love your comments dear Millie!

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      • milliethom #

        I love your pictures and stories – not to mention your great recipes.(I also love sand dunes. I grew up in a seaside town where we had lots, all along the coast. I don’t remember car races up and down them, though. We just used to have races by rolling down them – without the cars, I mean. Lol)

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  8. Liz #

    That cart is the stuff dreams are made of. Beautiful photos!

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  9. Cheryl "Cheffie Cooks" Wiser #

    Now that was just too funny! I saw the pole light and thought really a garage for what bicycles no car is getting in there? LOL The tea cart well…it is ornate!

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  10. Sandhya #

    The pole in front of the garage is too funny! That tea cart looks so royal!

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  11. Tanushree Ghosh #

    Oh my!! Never been there but now I want to. I am confused about how will I park in my garage though 😀 Haha

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  12. omtatjuan3 #

    Telephone pole in the driveway…. Classic!

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  13. Priceless Joy #

    The garage looks bigger than the house! LOL! Nice photos!

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  14. izza ifzaal #

    Looks like made of gold :p

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  15. neveradullbling #

    Hahahaha, the pole right in front of the garage! Funny! The tea cart is gorgeous!

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  16. thespiritkeepers #

    That tea cart wreaks of opulence. The box matches sort of the cart and you can get away from that. What throws the opulence is those chintzy cups that you serve tea in. They look like a garage store find next to the cart.

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  17. Sand Salt Moon #

    hard to get in and out of that garage, I see. Love your photos and that cart is over the top!

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  18. Tasha #

    The sand dunes pic looks more like a Toyota commercial!!

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  19. Sadie's Nest #

    I hope they drove motorcycles!

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  20. Divorce With Me #

    Lmao! Nice pole! Good one!

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  21. IreneDesign2011 #

    Great photos and fun with the pool Lynn 🙂

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  22. Maniparna Sengupta Majumder #

    The tea cart looks so ornate!

    Why on earth they have placed the pole in front of the garage? 😮

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  23. Persia Karema #

    Ooooh! That tea cart – I love it!

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  24. Marisa's Italian Kitchen #

    I wonder if a driver ever hit the pole while backing out of the garage….too funny 🙂

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  25. Haddon Musings #

    All that glitz on the tea cart could give you a headache.

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  26. Chatter Master #

    I had to look twice, FINALLY saw that pole….. perhaps they ride motorcycles? 😉 Or do now anyway.

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  27. pearlsandprose #

    The light pole is unbelievable! Do they really drive Toyota Camrys up the sand dunes?? Also, is it true they abandon expensive cars in the desert if they get stuck?

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    • Lynz Real Cooking #

      haha I am not sure about the camrys but my daughter said they had SUV, jeeps and just regular cars and it was quite a sight! I don’t think that is true because they are desert people and the average one will not want to leave their car. Maybe a super rich one but honestly the average Saudi is not rich at all! the average income is pretty low I was shocked!

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  28. Anna #

    Oh ha ha! I sat here staring at that picture and all of a sudden I saw the stop light blocking the garage! 😀 The tea cart is amazing — such detail!

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  29. Claremary P. Sweeney #

    That would be some extravagant tea!

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  30. lynne hoareau #

    Haha… I looked, and I looked, and I thought you cannot be serious ! is that traffic light pole really where it is? Unbelievable…It is a hoot !!! Would be interesting to know what the owners of the house think? It just goes to show how people work….guess it happens all over hey.
    My hubby went to Dubai for business and he went ‘Dune Bashing’ I am not too sure if that is the same thing, looks like it…got to say he wasn’t too impressed, and I told him he must be getting old haha

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  31. Linda #

    Did they only put motorcycles in the garage!? Haha…how did they ever get in and out? 🙂

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  32. Osyth #

    Being English afternoon tea is an artform and I was raised with it being wheeled in on a trolley, kettle on a spirit stove ready for mother to do the honours, teapot complete with cosy and bread and butter which had to be eaten before one was allowed to indulge in whatever sweet treats had been baked that day. But I have never seen such a bling trolley and I would love to see mother’s face if she saw it! As for the garage – hilarious!

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    • Lynz Real Cooking #

      Oh my now I want a post on that!! Amazing and lovely! You painted a fantastic picture so lovely!

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      • Osyth #

        I still think you American gals are the best bakers though!

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        • Lynz Real Cooking #

          hahaha well you are so sweet!!!

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        • Lynz Real Cooking #

          you know Clare wants us to get together sometime! All 3 of us!

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          • Osyth #

            Now THAT would be so exciting! I arrived in Boston yesterday and will be here for just a couple of weeks but straight after Christmas I am here for 3 months straight. Clare and I could be Thelma and Louise (without the killings) and roadtrip to you!!

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          • Lynz Real Cooking #

            wow coooll
            yes ok no killings hahahaha

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  33. Elaine @ foodbod #

    That garage is hilarious!!!! Only in the Middle East!

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  34. angncathy #

    Great photos! Did you have a regular camera? I am glad you got some pics of that “momentous” time in your life….

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  35. Erika Kind #

    Either they were stupid with planning the house/garage or the should sue the city… lol

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  36. Kat Myrman #

    Very Funny Lynn. I saw the problem in your first photo and laughed! Just shaking my head…:)

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  37. Lady CAS #

    That is a definitely a beautiful cart. I wish I had a place for something so elegant.

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