One of the happiest periods of my life was when I was the Chief Biomed at a 345-bed hospital in a town (they called it a city, locally) a few hours north of Riyadh.
Not only was I the only Brit in town ... I was the only
Westerner in town. But (in case you're wondering), although I had the beard* (naturally), I managed to resist the temptation to splash out on
thobe and
ghutra. Ha, ha.
*
Back in those days it was de rugueur for Western biomeds to adopt the local fashion with respect to "male grooming"!
