Movenpick (Deluxe) Doha

... think of. For a price you can sprinkle fresh BC blueberries on your morning cereal or make a turkey sandwich with Butterball sandwich meat flown in from the US if you really wish. I’ve been sticking mostly to chicken (frozen from Brazil) and pasta for cooking at home. The fresh meat is quite pricey but the fruits and vegetables are very reasonable. The brand name cereals, soups, etc. can get expensive. Some examples (in ...

... had to show them while still in the mall, man I thought we were going to get kicked out for laughing too hard and loud.

Our fun filled shopping evening ended up in a simiar fashion.....we forgot where we parked. We should have taken picture of us carrying bags and me with a 30lb bag of dog food on my shoulder walking up and down the isles. Needless to say it was almost 10:30 pm when we got back.

... and the men display shiny cufflinks. It is as if the Western Business shirt were just extended to the floor. I have seen at least five outfits where the head scarf was replaced by a baseball cap. The uniformity of it all, however, for most men wear the plain white head scarf (not Arafat style) in addition to the white robe makes it look almost as if people are playing dress up; do people really wear the same thing every day? The women of Doha are ...

Arrived at Doha Airport where I had a 6 hour layover. Bored to tears. Spending 6 hours in a departure lounge was not fun. Kept myself sane by browsing the shops then going back later to see if I could correctly guess the prices. That's what I had to resort to, to kill some time. Did have free internet but the computer kept logging out after 10 minutes which was ...

... name of the mall, but different areas would represent different times of the day with murals on the ceiling of blue sky and clouds for day, or the evening had little streetlamps, there was even a small river with gondolas floating through middle. Suffering from H & M and Krispy Kreme deprivation for months, some guilty pleasures from home were welcome, on our way to South Africa.

... first booking was never canceled. This resulted in me having multiple bookings, which the airline understandably frowns on. But when I actually plonked down the money to pay for the ticket, that should have converted my reservation into an issued ticket in the airline's system. So how could they cancel the reservation for a ticket for which I had already paid? Did they maybe think that I wanted to just buy a ticket and not fly? Anyway, after a half an hour of running ...

... the ocean and the land, the storm's ferver gusting through our spirits, uplifting us with its force. Then we ran for cover. The show was postponed and carried out without a hitch on the next evening , but the delay was an organisational head-ache for artist's flights as tickets were cancelled and had to be rebooked. Some artists were stranded there for up to a week with out knowing when they'd return.

... I was talking to the driver, as I do, and it turns out he is from Afghanistan. Once I told him that this is where I flew in from, we had quite an interesting chat. He told me that his father moved his family here thirty-five years ago, so while he claims to be "from" Afghanistan, he also has lived here so long that he considers himself a local. He said that Afghanistan is too dangerous right now and that he wished everyone ...

... through I have a look round ( no postcards worth buying ) so I give up and try to find if we are boarding yet as there is nothing else to do. As I wait near our departure gate I start talking to a fellow passenger from Denmark who had an even longer journey due to flight cancellations from her local airport due to snow) she had to catch a train. She is returning to Nepal to visit friends and school children she had ...