Flight to Jeddah

Train to Frankfurt, 30 minutes later - but no problem, then a smooth flight with Saudi-Air to Jeddah, I think the 2nd largest city in Saudi on the Red Sea - about 2 million inhabitants.

from -2 degrees to plus 26 in the evening at 10:00 PM local time (+2 hours to Germany).

The immigration police is completely in veiled female hand, everything goes smoothly, suitcase arrives as well. I am traveling alone, the others are coming by special flight from Eindhoven, where there is a center of Dakar fever in Holland. Many teams are in that area.

The Dakar Rally has a very high status in the Netherlands - similar to Formula 1 in M. Schumacher's times...

daily live TV broadcasts, etc.

Uber taxi ride to the hotel (can't beat Uber here), where some guys are already waiting for me. Quickly eat something with non-alcoholic beer, then sleeping..