Doha, Qatar Travel Blogs

Dubai via Qatar
Apr 29, 2008

I flew to Dubai via Qatar. Annoying stop for 2 hours, no good bench to lie down and sleep.

Falcon Surgery - To Fly Again
Nov 5, 2009 (5 photos)

    This morning I had my driver take me to the Qatar Falcon Center.  From the guidebook, it sounded like a place where men came to look at falcons and possibly purchase them.  From the actual experience it was a whole heck of ...

Zwischenstopp in Doha, Katar
Oct 2, 2008 (3 photos)

Wie der Name schon sagt nur ein kleiner 3 stuendiger Aufenthalt mitten in der Wueste. Nicht besonders spannend aber immerhin der erste Vorgeschmack auf die Hitze in Thailand

More Beer and Wine
Jul 11, 2006 (1 photos)

More beer and wine Montepulciano D'Abruzzo Denominazione Di Orgine Controllata Terre Forti 2003 QR38 ($13.60 AUD) What a mouthful! Imagine ordering your second or third bottle of that? I'll have the 2003 please waiter! I am drinking this one ...

mr
Jun 7, 2009

Iam working in doha-qatar. i need flight from doha to gaya india this is my first choice. thankx

a practical question
Jan 14, 2009

Enroute from Berlin to Doha they showed a Simpsons episode which I tried to ignore but there was a scene where the Simpsons were watching cartoons on a TV.  The question was this:  shouldn't they have been watching live human TV shows? gotta ...

doha
Oct 6, 2007

ojla prvi del poti je za nama, nahajava se na letaliscu v dohi. Najprej naju je presenetilo toplo vreme, samo 32 stopinj sredi noci, se dobro da imajo vse klimatizirano. Sva prisla ravno v casu ramadana, zato se ne sme na javnih mestih jesti in piti, ...

best decision ever
Jul 4, 2009 (1 photos)

... Qatar for a few days. he planned for us to stay for about three days.  luckily we changed our plans. we stopped over in Doha, Qatar on our way from Bangkok to Istanbul .  When we landed the pilot told us the weather. and i quote: "The current ...

Sand and Skyscrapers
Sep 19, 2009

Yep, we were here!  Well...just at the airport. More on this story to come....

Qatar
Jul 21, 2006

... ass. It looks exactly like the ones on our kitchen sinks. How´s that for a visual. None of the service workers in Doha are from Qatar. They are all imports from India or Asia. I´m glad we went to Qatar. I don´t have an overwhelming urge to got ...

arabian nights
Feb 26, 2006

I'm writing but i don't know if it's real or not and i don't know if it means anything yet. ________ I could stare at Arabians for hours. I don't mean that in a prude gawking way, i mean it as a compliment. In India the men dress western style and ...

Luxury in the Gulf
Jan 13, 2008

... my entry visa...right on top of the Israeli stamp!  Seriously, I must have a pretty unique passport at this point with a Qatar visa overlapping my Israeli exit stamp. So I got a cab, and went to the hotel...it was incredible, especially after the ...

Desert
Nov 28, 2009

... crisis just round the corner they will probably stay there , incomplete and deserted. I wanted to take a photo of the welcome to Doha image on the water tower (?) but Nick suggested that this probably wasn't a good idea given where we were.  I'd also ...

Qatari bennies
Nov 4, 2009 (1 photos)

    My driver was regalling me today with all the benefits associated with living in an oil rich nation.  Petrol here for the car is running around $0.76/gallon (crunched the numbers 3 times from what he told me and that's what I ...

To Dubai and Doha
Nov 8, 2008 (5 photos)

... as a souvenir.    It was nice flying Singapore Airlines again.  This time I was flying to Dubai, then on Qatar to Doha.  The flight was very nice.  There were only four of us in First Class on the B777-300.  Unfortunately, ...

115 degrees in the shade
May 30, 2006

... signing out for the night. Medical interpreters training at Weill Cornell-Qatar courtsey of The Penninsula- Doha, Qatar Doha · Communication between medical students and patients takes centre stage this week as Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar ...

Let the Games begin...
Nov 26, 2006 (2 photos)

It's 4 days to go until the Games start -- here are a few mixed photos from work and play in the last few weeks leading up to the Games. And of course a chance for you to be able to see the lovely Asian Games uniform!

And so much for Qatar
Jan 20, 2009

 It seems that my time in Doha has been spent chasing up Qatar Airways to retrieve my delayed bag. Delivery was finally confirmed last night at 23:30, but in damaged stae. I trekked out to the airport to confirm that my backpack was indeed mangled and ...

You can’t be sensible all the time
Jul 26, 2009 (2 photos)

... be the Land Cruiser.  There are also plenty of Porsche Cayennes and there may be more in the future as the State of Qatar is in talks with Porsche/Volkswagen to purchase something like 25% of Porsche.  I looked at Civics, Accords, Mazda 3 and ...

Qatar Tour
May 4, 2007 (5 photos)

One of my freinds from the US and I decided to do a tour around Qatar.

Pictures of my apartment
Aug 12, 2009 (6 photos)

Here are a few pictures of my current apartment.  Another colleague is in one almost identical to it and he affectionaly calls his "the bat cave" due it's lack of natural light.  I love natural light and completely believe in sunshine therapy& ...

Stop over in Qatar
Jul 26, 2006

Qatar was just a short stop over of a couple of hours and we actually didn't see too much. Though it sure was a nice view when touching down in the middle of the desert. The streets looked brand new and splendidly constructed and all seemed to be ...

Fingerprinting
May 17, 2006

... would just stand up and stand next to the fingerprinting man and he would do them next. Now here is the twist - in Qatar some people wait a long time and some people get processed straight away. It depends on how well your escort knows the fingerprinting ...

Fasting for Ramadan
Aug 22, 2009

Ramadan begins at the sight of the cresent moon in the month of Ramadan in the Islamic calendar.  That was last night.  During Ramadan, Muslims fast (no food or drink) and abstain from smoking, sex and anything indulgent between dawn and sunset ...

Vuelo de ida
Jan 5, 2007 (3 photos)

  .- Barcelona - Madrid = 01:15 h. (Spanair) .- Madrid (Espana) - Doha (Qatar) = 06:50 h. - Qatar Airways No vimos el circuito de F1.... .- Doha (Qatar) - Bangkok (Tailandia) = 06:20 h. - Qatar Airways 

Does a country count if it's just an airport stop?
Sep 5, 2008

I am at the airport in Doha, Qatar.  So can I add Qatar to my list of places visited even though I am just here at the airport? When I get to India I will write all about my last day in Bahrain and the whole Middle East experience.  This is just ...

Theres a lot of dust in the desert
Aug 29, 2007

A stopover, yuk. 3 hours longer than planned. Double yuk.

Qatar (airport only - but it counts)
Aug 14, 2009

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Boring Generalities
Jun 24, 2009

First Impressions I arrived in Doha, capital city of Qatar sometime around 10:30 or 11pm.  Deplaned onto the tarmac and was somewhat underwhelmed by the heat.  I had been informed of oppressive, high humidity heat and was mentally prepared for ...

15th Asian Games -- Mobile Team Photos!
Dec 17, 2006 (27 photos)

... around a city the size of a typical small suburb -- to put it in perspective we could have driven around the entire country of Qatar about 250 times! So here are lots of photos of my great team -- a HUGE thank you to the Mobile Team volunteers who were ...