Deira Suites Hotel Doha

... a hondunum, er tad??

mer datt i hug ad eg vaeri skitug i framan, svo eg tvodi mer i framan.. en gleymdi afleidingunum hvad hudin min verdur turr eftir a og eg var ekki med krem a mer. 'tad hlytur ad vera inni a klosetti' , hugsadi 'eg (sem er reyndar svo stort ad eg gaeti farid tangad inn i hjolastol) og viti menn... i hillunni var rakakrem og ilmvatn fra qatar airlines! :D fullkomid.

maturinn er eins ...

Well its been almost 2 weeks and finallly gave in to the kids and took them to the beach. This is Sealine Beach Resort which is about 45 minutes from our house. It was hot but tolerable and spent more time in their pool than the beach. Not sure if it was the time of the year ...

... 8217;s a bit of a push for a move to a new location partly because of the lack of natural light in many apartments (mine included). More staff are coming next month that will require the University to get apartments in another building so I may get moved.

On my Workplace

The campus has two buildings; the main building and the annex. The annex houses the library and learning commons, a few classrooms and everything else is located in the main ...

... is the beautiful Museam of Islamic Arts, a terrific building designed by that wonderful Muslim architect...I.M. Pei....oh wait, he's not Muslim...and he designed one of the wings of the National Gallery of Art in DC...interesting. A couple drove by on the Corniche in a red Mercedes convertable. The man was dressed in the traditional white robes with white head scarf and snazzy black rayban like sunglasses with a blue tooth headset ...

... and AC on, etc.). Anyway, once the sun has set we went out into the city and we admired the spectacular Al Corniche, a promenade that goes along the bayshore for 7 km (5 miles). The view of the skyline from the sea level was indeed breathtaking. Then, we decided we would go to see the Doha Souk, have dinner there and browse the shops. Of course, this undertaking that was supposed to take 10 minutes, took us an hour due again to roads closed, poorly marked ...

It was a long experience.. I spent 12 hours at Doha airport during my travel to Dhaka. I expected this journey to be a nice one from my previous experience with Qatar airways, but ultimately it became a nightmare. First, as I got urgent SOS call from Bangladesh Office, I ran to change my ticket. It turned out that Qatar Airways has changed their office location from Sofitel hotel and nobody knows the new address. Finally with the help of another driver from our Algerian office ...

... On both the Doha and London legs we had screaming babies!! The worst was the JHB-Doha trip, as we took off at 10pm and wanted to sleep a bit! Oh no.. No rest for the wicked as mom would say!! This baby shrieked and cried the WHOLE way (at intervals of about 15mins- which lull you into a false sense of security and you drift off to sleep!!) Thankfully we land in Doha with no further upsets, only to find Doha possibly THE ...

... to let me use his cell phone to call the US...I later learned that irrational thinking and anxiety was one of the side effects of the duo-cotecxin malaria treatment (from China and not available in the US, btw...in case you're debating whether to get treated in the US or abroad). So getting to the Entebbe airport, I had a patchwork of 5 flights over the next three days to look forward to. I was not thrilled, particularly for the ...

... two days..... Yes, you are right.. my bag did not arrive. So, I am now standing in the airport, wearing formal dress as I was doing office the whole day and did not have chance to change to some more comfy outfit, without anything except my documents and money. I lodged a report at the L & F, and got the reference number and their contact details. We found the limusine outside the airport and arrived at the hotel at 3:30 AM. The road to the hotel was wide ...

... I have seen one street light. Yep just one. They have hundred of round-abouts though. Each have a sculpture or statue as markers. So the street name is not used. The directions are more like take your second right at the Rainbow round-about then your first right at the oyster shell round-about. Its quite amusing. -Then there is the shear amount of construction going on. I counted 15 heavy duty cranes just with one passing by. Apparently the ...