A bit misleading since they only serve tea there, not beer. This is the former “women’s garden” behind the Ministry of Culture. They probably closed the segregated garden because men and women are now allowed to mingle in public, which never, ever would have happened when we lived there unless you wanted to end up in prison, or worse.

Tim had to return to Riyadh, where we lived for three years, once again as part of his job overseeing the Washington component of a program with Saudi Arabia.

Café flower, posted earlier: