Royal Qatar Hotel Doha
Al Asmakh St, PO Box 9488 Doha, Qatar
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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 Africa, eaten at a roadside, hole in the wall cafe. AAs the meal was entirely in Swahili we asked the waitress to serve …
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Al Wakrah, Qatar
... mail was a completely different story. Things had been sent to me and some of them had arrived, always on a yet to be identified schedule. One day I received three packages postmarked over a month apart. Maybe the postal service was tidying up that day. And without an address Google does not help much either.
Driving was a task I did my best to avoid. My apartment was ...
Mafi Mushkila (No problem in Arabic)
... women in their abayas make the scene surreal.After the souk, we walk outside along the Persian Gulf (it is probably actually something else here, but part of the Persian Gulf). You do feel very safe here. You don’t hear any sirens ever. And there isn’t any garbage…although, like I said, the government is ALWAYS watching, so you do feel like you need to be on your best behavior at all times (difficult for me).
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Oil Money
... vanished. They'll probably build something even grander in its place.
Since Qatar proudly boasts having the world's most expensive hotels, I really lucked out to have a friend living here who I could stay with. Maria showed me around Doha, where we went to the Islamic Art Museum and toured the sook (the outdoor market). The sook sells everything from spices to fabrics to souvenirs. In the animal section we saw ...
Achievement Unlocked: Puppetmaster
... the right to leave the store after telling the guy that he's being dishonest. Which I did, and when the guy tried to grab my arm I gave him the most horrible icy-glare I could find from the bottomless pit of my soul.
Enough of this, enough of your calling me "friend" when you actually mean stupid walking piggybank. Most vendors are fairly honest, but the ones treating people like this really deserve everything they get.
To the bald guy selling **** for ...



