Country Info
- Doha
- Capital
- Qatari Rial (QAR)
- Currency
- 769,152
- Population
- QA
- Country Code
Doha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Doha, Qatar
Ladies Luncheon
Sometimes ladies just have to get together and share moments. On this occasion, most of the ladies at work decided together and share a moment. Team building! Our place of choice? The Market at the W Hotel. They have an ...
Pictures of my apartment
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 ...
Stop over in Qatar
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
... 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
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 ...
Does a country count if it's just an airport stop?
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 ...
Quiz Night Winner
.........of last place! first timers at quiz night and we won last place. Well that was fun. :( In my quest to find things to do to get out more and find interesting folks to do things with I attended Quiz night at Porto Arabia. ...
It's Halloween and I am bummed!
No tricks, to treaters, no candy, no decorations, no babe, no scarey movies, no haunted houses, no costume parties, NO LIQUOR! I have got to find something to do with myself, am going crazy! Thank goodness my babe is coming soon! N ...
Private Zoo
... and cakes with the staff. We were there at 12 noon on Thursday. After a lucky morning start at the Qatar Falcon Center, I thought our luck had run out. I was also pretty sure we were at the wrong place, but a man ...
Boring Generalities
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!
... 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 ...
La gentillesse
English link : http://tinyurl.com/6hp9kfw Me voilà enfin à Doha, capitale du Qatar. D'abord, je dois dire que mes 2 vols se sont passés à merveille. Le petit vol Montreal-Washington a été bien calme et le 2e, entre Washington et Doha, a ...
Bored Bored Bored
... boring but I am stuck in Doha for 8 hour and I have very little to do (hence the blog entry). Travelling on Qatar Airlines was an absolute delight, the flight attendants provided excellent service, the food was good, the movies were very up ...
Doha
... of a sudden, we were in the air and out of the snow and cold. I could not have imagined our stop over destination of Doha, Qatar. It is on the Arabian peninsula and is smaller than the island of Manhattan with a population of 250,000. It's existance is ...
Could it possibly be more excitement in Qatar????
October 26 thru 31 brings to Qatar the World Tennis Association Tennis Tournament. This my dears means that the top competitors of womens tennis world are here, really! In Qatar! And no doubt during the same time as the Tribeca, ...
Exploring North of Qatar
With Frank in town, I decided to book a tour to go to the North of Qatar. This means they took us from Doha through Al Khor, Al Shamal & Madinat. Basically we went to see half of the country! In Al Khor which used to be the major ...
After a full day, Lebanese for dinner!
Yummy! Frank and I came back from our North of Qatar trip we decided it would be nice to walk "The Pearl" and find a place to eat. We settled for Lebanese. We had an awesome meal, with wine, yes my dears there was wine and yes Frank had ...
Poolside, relaxation and cooking in
... . Adult beverages poolside, ahhhh! Perfect day, Frank smoked a cigar and we just enjoyed our company and took in the Qatar sun. We cooked in today, so adventure. Frank appreciated the home cooking he has not had in 1 1/2 months! 4 ...
Al Wakrah, Qatar
... , sleep seemed like the best thing going. The pads and blankets looked like a pile of debris gathered from one of Qatar's many condemned buildings after the residents abandoned ship. I removed my accountant's shoes, lay down on a discolored sleeping pad, ...
Training Day 1
... participants were really an excited bunch of interpreters. Its exciting because they will be the first trained Medical Interpreters in Qatar. They are like sponges, they are soaking up all of the information that we have. We ended our training at ...
Wine and Food
... ' wine. What will it be like in another 5 years!! Do I have to get off this flight!!!!! Wines and beer purchased at Qatar Distribution Company 11/05/2006. There is only one liquour outlet in Qatar. You need to have a drinking licence to buy ...
Madrid-Doha-Bombay
... selection of 50+ films, TV-series and computergames has me on the edge of my seat until we reach Doha 7 hours later. Doha airport is spectacularly dull. There is nothing hinting at local culture beside the obvious willingness to consider the trade-off ...
Life is just too funny sometimes
... hour in the expensive store to find a solution for getting about town. I hope Salthar also knows how to go to the northern villages so I can see a bit of Qatar besides just Doha. And yes, I bought lots of water and a very high SPF ...
Where the boys are!!
You ever heard of the movie "Where the boys are?" I felt that I had taken a step in to this movie on this day. Crazy I know but true! Farah and I were invited for an outing to the "Camp" at Ras Laffan City. This is where all the folks ...
Christmas Party at Inge's
... home to celebrate Christmas and get in the Christmas spirit. She has a small gathering of friends since folks will be leaving Qatar for the Christmas Holiday. It has been a full weekend with Thursdays trip to Ras Laffan, the Gala on Friday ...
Flight to Doha
... we were on our honeymoon, instead we got a raised eyebrow, this was going to be an interesting journey. First impressions of Qatar airlines are fairly positive. We were welcomed with an illegally hot face towel which only made Jack's shaven baby face look ...