Country Info
- Doha
- Capital
- Qatari Rial (QAR)
- Currency
- 769,152
- Population
- QA
- Country Code
Qatar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Qatar
Adventures in Banking
One would presume that, as Director of Finance, I would have signing authority over our bank accounts. This would be a fair and correct presumption but that authority is not automatic with the title of course. The paperwork to arrange this is not ...
Quality Not Quantity
We spent our final morning in Africa sampling the last of the Kenyan beers that we had not yet tried. For those following Brendan's beer log Tusker Lager was by far the best. Before heading to the airport we had our final meal in ...
New Years Eve
... our small suitcase inside and asked if it was too early to check in. They said "no problem" (nothing is a problem in Qatar) and checked us in. The bellboy even brought us champagne flutes filled with pineapple juice while we checked in. Our hotel room is ...
Ramadan Mubarak!
Ramadan Mubarak! (Happy Ramadan!) Today starts the first day of Ramadan. In order to get a better understanding of the religion and culture, I decided to fast today. Fasting is a time to practice self restraint and to become closer to ...
The exausting part of travelling
... to 7 Egyptian pounds. He even ended up paying. He hung out with me at the airport till his dad came to pick him up. Qatar is an amazing airline. The service can't be beat. They keep feeding you. Private screens where i watched "Jonases". The mivie made ...
Postojanka v Dohi
Po 8 in pol urnem letu, ki nas je pustil razocarane (dobili smo letalo brez individualnih ekranckov, na glavnih monitorjih pa so en film zavrteli 2x zapored....) smo prispeli v Doho in 8 urno cakanje na naslednji let se je pricelo. Spravili smo se v ...
First day in the Middle East
We arrived at the airport in Doha at about 2am this morning. We went through immigration where we got our visas. The women behind the desks were all dressed in black, cloaked in veils. The woman helping us was very pleasant and completely avoided looking ...
A day at the beach
We managed to make it to breakfast in time this morning, which consisted of an assortment of pastries and some tea. Then we walked down to the bus station which is not very far from our hotel. I got a lot of looks at the station. The bus station was ...
To Dubai and Doha
... nbsp; Arrival in Doha was such a breeze. The Doha airport has no jet bridges. All passengers are bussed. Qatar Airways uses specially designed busses for First Class passengers only. No standing on these buses; you want to sit ...
Adventures in Personal Banking
... bank than a couple of days ago, to open a personal chequing account. For this, as with so many other things in Qatar, one needs a "no objection certificate" (NOC) from their employer. For a bank account, the NOC basically just states ...
Excited for first vacation
Haven't written anything in ages. Work is busy and I still don't have internet at my apartment but I'm latching on to a neighnours at the moment. Ramadan is nearing an end and that means a statutory holiday (Eid Al Fitr) is also coming ...
Qatar...pays de l onyx
Top 5: Qatar Airways 1- Menu pour le souper! Un vrai repas comme dans le bon vieux temps et qu'on ne retrouve maintenant qu’en premičre classe. 2- Surprises telles que petits bas, pochette a argent, ...
Surfer's night out
... 8217;s grape which was better but I won’t be rushing out to buy my own hookah. At any rate, shisha is a quintessential Qatar/Middle East experience and I’m sure this won’t be my last time. Our last stop on our big night out was the ...
Officially a Resident
... ;s had the same thing happen in Canada where they were determined not to be of any particular concern but, of course, the Qatar officials don’t care what Canadian doctors have said. After weeks of going from hospitals to clinics seeing various ...
Prihod v Doho
Prvo mozno javljanje iz samsungove internet tocke na letaliscu v Dohi. Mukotrpno 6 urno cakanje na mukotrpen 6 urni let :D Slikice sledijo :) Naslednje javljanje ...
Welcome to Steve's Qatar Blog!
... to hearing from you and posting more! In the meantime, here are some pics to whet your appetite. [1] Over here, we pronounce Qatar “Kha-TAR.” They told me before I left to pronounce it “Cutter,” but nobody does ...
Hotter than Hell
... adorn their buildings. When we got to the ocean, we could see the many city center across the bay. In the last 20 years, Qatar literally created the penisula that the new city exists on! We saw some before and after pěctures and it´s just amazing ...
Finally!
... International Airport wondering why I decided to schedule my flight out of here 9 ˝ hours after my flight from Kandahar got in. Qatar Airways doesn't check you in until three hours before the flight. I knew this. I sat in the terminal ...
Doha - Light Reading
You know you have lived in the Gulf too long when: - You need a sweater when it's 80 degrees Fahrenheit - Your idea of housework is leaving a list for the houseboy - You send friends a map instead of your address - You believe that ...
Welcome to Doha - The city of construction
Welcome to Doha - 1st Week So I arrived 2weeks ago and I'm now classed as a local as each week more and more people are arriving. The flight over was fine, I arrived at Dubai airport and bumped into 2 people I knew who were also heading across to ...
Tonight I am eating an MRE!
Tonight I'm eating an MRE! That's "Meal, Ready to Eat," the bag-o-chow that has been feeding the soldier in the field ever since 1980, according to my online souces http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mres.html. Maybe not the ...
Partying in the Sand
Well as life goes on and on in Doha and as I am just about to hit the four month mark of being here I have come to the conclusion that we do make the most of our time living here in the sand. Work is Work so I am not going to go into detail about that ...
The Apartment Saga!!
The Apartment Saga!!!! The Apartment Part 1 Living arrangement; the guest house we were staying in was nice but I was defiantly keen to get settled in my own new place. I had already organised to share an apartment with my friend Cath and the week ...
Embrace the Heat
I am staying in Qatar with my friend Maria, who is not the same Maria mentioned in previous posts who visited me in France and Spain. This Maria was in the School of Education with me at Boston University, and now teaches and lives in ...
Spiral mosque (Doha, Qatar)
About Spiral Mosque: The spiral mosque of the Kassem Darwish Fakhroo Islamic Centre is a recent construction - It has become in a few years one of Doha's most famous landmarks. This is not a traditional Qatari mosque but a replica of the Great Mosque of ...
Qatar
We arrived in Doha - Qatar at 11pm and it was 32oC. A little bit of a shock to the system as when we left England it was about 10oC! It felt as if someone had left the engines of the plane on as it was so ridiculously hot. We managed to get all of ...
The Pearl and a Lamborghini
Last night, Julia and I were inspired to learn how to wear a hijab. Mostly because we didn't want to do our hair, but also because the women in Doha look so gorgeous in them! We found a youtube video instruction, sat in front of the computer ...
Last Day in Doha
Spent the day catching up on homework while Julia went to work. It's amazing how I can blog and 900 words, just write themselves but if I have to do it for a paper, it takes me all day and is a daunting task. I wish I would’ve been able to see the ...