Ezdan Hotel & Suites Doha

Today I went to the bank, a different 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 the employees salary. I have read and heard several times that the service is not the same and things take much longer here than in "the West". From my personal ...

... for the driver’s license application and the ones I had taken the day after I arrived were unflattering to say the least with the jet lag and all.

Everything went very smoothly until I got to the police station where I had to submit my application. I approached the main building but when I peered into the open doors I say a kitchen and figured that they were not the doors I should be going through. I asked a couple of guys having a ...

... the hotel and by wikitravel there was nothing else open between 12-4. Our taxi driver did his best job to get us there as quickly as possible, but hit a little traffic, the first we've really seen so far. When the din of the early afternoon prayers hit his ears, he immediately turned off the radio... In the City Centre the sights continued. As you walk in there is another Ice Rink where rock ballads entertain the skaters, like Bryan Adams' "Power of ...

... and a thin pancake filled with egg, cheese and honey). A must for any visitor. Other sights included a stroll along the long Corniche, encompassing the Bay of Doha., pitstops at two of the splendid hotels (Intercon for salsa on sunday evening and a luxury buffet dinner at the Ritz, feeling like stars), a top-down drive in Razak's funky Volvo cabriolet and as highlight a dinner party with local expats ...

... After 35 minutes of walking and looking for a cab we realize this is going to be practically impossible so we turn back to the hotel. Once there they call us a car and drive us to the Ramada where we're meeting Sean and his civilian contractor Travis for lunch. The Ramada is nice, large and filled with a variety of people. We scope out the restaurants for lunch and decide to go to the buffet. On our way there we pass in the lobby a tent ...

... around public holidays is a bit of a difficulty to say the least I think in this area, so I ended up going overseas to Doha in Qatar. This place was stunning. Its a fairly small city with fairly good infrastructure, mass amounts of wealth, and a never ending supply of sunshine I think. When I arrived in at 6.30am on the Friday morning it was already 32C and moved up to 42C during the day. As you would appreciate didnt do ...

... I pointed out to her. Sometimes it pays to be prepared. So she ended up paying me my change in dollars. (I'm not as dumb as I look!) So at about 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon I boarded my third and final flight of the journey, pleased that I was going to be able to make it to my destination a third of the way around the world - more or less just as planned. The flight to Zanzibar took only twenty minutes (which actually made it very expensive on a cost per distance basis ...

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, pa tudi kaditi. Anze ...

... so i can't justify his thoughts. As far as a caste system, i don't see it any different then back home where the working class and the business class have their own issues as well. When it comes to women and men i also notice no hierarchy. The women here drive, go out by themselves, hold jobs, and hold offices. I don't know if its true but i was told that per Islamic religion the men are the ones how have to pay for the house/food/essentials ...

We were booked to do onstage firedance highlights as part of the opening of the Doha Cultural Festival. It was a large-scale collaborative show that took over a section of the corniche, and the performance included world-class gymnasts, singers, contortionists and aerial acrobats on and above the stage (not to mention fire-dancers!) as well as ultra-light planes and boats shooting out pyrotechnics and artists that ...