Tim is in Riyadh this week and is under orders to take pictures of the Diplomatic Quarter, where we lived for three years, until 2016. I doubt he’ll have much time for that, but he did catch this modern shopping center (Oud Square), one of several new ones around the DQ, which never used to have anything even remotely resembling that. He says there are now hotels, restaurants and even a liquor store under construction for diplomatic personnel. In the picture, however, are three women (walking side by side) dressed in black abayas and hijab, something I was sure hadn’t changed significantly, and so it hasn’t, even on the more “liberal” DQ.

Auckland Harbour, posted earlier: