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Al Wakrah, Qatar
... no addresses. Giving directions is like taking the GED, you either can or you can't. One must know the city and all the insignificant landmarks built haphazardly along outdated roads. My apartment was off B Ring Road near the Jaidah tower. That was my address. A taxi driver at the airport shared that bit of info three months after I moved there, when he didn't understand my ...
Mafi Mushkila (No problem in Arabic)
... br> Since it has stopped raining, Julia and I decide to go to the Souk (shopping area). Here is where I get a taste of old traditions. All kinds of little shops selling spices, fabrics, and blue, pink, and purple rabbits (I guess they dye them, which is cruel, but they are so fun! I do want a blue rabbit.). Along the one side of the Souk, the air fills with sheesha from the hookah. Love that smell! And, the men in their dish dashes ...
Oil Money
... from one day to the next, since they are constantly building new things. Everything seems to always be under construction, and since it's such a rich country they can afford to build new things yet can't be bothered to maintain them, so instead they tear down new buildings in order to replace them with newer buildings. When I got here I saw a beautiful building in front of some other beautiful building, and today the one in front ...
Achievement Unlocked: Puppetmaster
... to the world and only shown for special occasions. The stress! Went through a dozen of different shops and at the very last attempt I finally found some honest old man that brought an entire box of puppets to let me choose my favourite one. What a pity he didn't take credit cards, really wanted to buy a whole bag of them, but this special single one will be always unique for this reason.
One word of warning: if you are asked 1500 rupees for a puppet ...
D'oh, a... very sad goodbye
... ordering and queue system. There is nothing here, not even a paper shop or a place that sells single chocolate bars (no I don't want twenty Toblerones!) which leaves me very little to do for thirteen hours but sit very still and people watch. Not that thats such a bad thing entirely, but having just arrived I cannot at this point see a time when it will ever end.
I say it might be my second time in Asia because right at the start of the trip I had ...



