Urgent need of social Life: New exciting and active comer to Riyadh

FrenchySwimmer wrote:

Hi,

People who come to Riyadh would sure face the same as you, but the thing is you will get used to it. It will take some time to get along with people and the culture, so keep patience and move on. For social life get in touch with people in DQ or compounds, else some weekend meetings. What ever you did before coming to saudi for your social life, just forget them and start your new life with zero. At one point you will understand the real situation here and you would get used to it. Good Luck.

Thanks Suribhai for your advice.

I'm Ok here as long as I'm discovering the area, culture, living, people, differences....etc I travelled a lot so it's not the worst place to be. I've visited many places over weekends also. Burning 1000 of km on weekends but I need to build smoothly my social life here. I'm not living in the compound. So I don't know if I can acces or not or should I need to be invited?
Didn't have time to go to French Ambassy yet but I'll do. Meanwhile I could'nt find information on activities of expats here yet. any clue ?

Hey,frenchy swimmer?   anyways ,welcome to the Kingdom,moreover welcome to Expat-Blog .I like your enthusiasm ,There arent many people with such zeal.i would hang out with you sometime but first thing first ,like you mentioned you needed to know about the activies , i dont know about many but here are some  if you are interested in bowling then there is a gathering every once or twice a month ,depending on the organiser https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=366070 ,i see you already know this ,but i think it wont be until next 3 to 4 weeks i guess,anyways about the parties ,there are lots of them going on but only in secrecy and in compounds ,which you  are strict invitee only.But dont worry once you make friends ,you will get to know and to meet potential people ,there are get togethers organised by embassies where you can socialise .I think there is Europe month going on this whole month where there are regular exhibitions and get togethers in the european embassies,and importantly everyone is invited so just hang out and visit the DQ. Well these are the only things are currently in my mind .There are other member who would give you better insight about "socializing". Until then enjoy the city.

Hi FrenchySwimmer,

This Hisham, I hope you are getting used to it. let me know if you wanna meet for coffee or table tennis game.

Regards....