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Thought it was about time for an up date from Doha, Qatar, I can’t do much outside today as we have a dust storm, visibility is down to about half a K, and that’s not the major problem as I was out for awhile and it felt like you were chewing on sand, it’s in your eyes, hair what I’ve got left and everywhere else. It’s supposed to blow itself out by tomorrow afternoon.
We were going to play golf today on the Doha International Course, but we have postponed that because of the dust and plus one of the guys as got Doha belly, something he ate. We are now playing next week, hope to have photos then.
Colleen’s job is going along well, and her Partner seems to be very nice, I have not met her and are unlikely to, but Colleen is happy. She does however get phone calls at all hours with last minute changes and questions, but that’s not a big deal. The rest of the team are also progressing well with no real problems or issues, language can get in the way some times but generally everything gets sorted eventually.
We have now all got our Qatar driving licences, a bit of a rigmarole, photo’s eye tests etc, but we all passed and are now able to drive here, our licences are also endorsed to drive not only cars but also motorbikes, heavy truck and trailers and diggers on tracks, cool, let me lose.
We are still in the Hotel although Sue and Stu were moved out today to an apartment and we are expecting to be all gone by the 7th of April so just a few more days of the high life. The apartments are in an area called Al Hitmi and close to the Souq’s in the old part of town and the Corniche, so we will have plenty to do in the evenings.
Now that we have our licences we are able to lease a car so that is next on the agenda as the drivers we have had supplied will no longer be available from next week. So we are now busy trying to locate a good deal. Colleen’s company is trying to broker a bit of a deal with a couple of car outfits so hopefully we will be mobile by the weekend. We are planning to share with a couple of the guys and I will be the driver. Lease prices are in the region of 1900 Riyals ($650) for a Nissan Tida (2008) up to 2700 Riyals ($950) for a Toyota Camary four cylinder model (2008). Petrol costs 75 Dirams (25 cents) a litre so that is not to bad.
Work does not look promising at this time. I have spoken to a couple of Kiwi guys in the Construction Industry and they are keeping their eyes open for me, so will just have to wait and see. In the mean time driving the others around will keep me busy.
Tonight we plan to go to the Corniche and take a Dhow ride across the harbour to the Sheraton to experience the hospitality, it takes about 20 minutes and the harbour and city by night should look rather nice. I think we are then going to walk back around the Corniche to Ridges Hotel and the Aussie bar for a couple of quite Heinies.
Thought it was about time for an up date from Doha, Qatar, I can’t do much outside today as we have a dust storm, visibility is down to about half a K, and that’s not the major problem as I was out for awhile and it felt like you were chewing on sand, it’s in your eyes, hair what I’ve got left and everywhere else. It’s supposed to blow itself out by tomorrow afternoon.
We were going to play golf today on the Doha International Course, but we have postponed that because of the dust and plus one of the guys as got Doha belly, something he ate. We are now playing next week, hope to have photos then.
Colleen’s job is going along well, and her Partner seems to be very nice, I have not met her and are unlikely to, but Colleen is happy. She does however get phone calls at all hours with last minute changes and questions, but that’s not a big deal. The rest of the team are also progressing well with no real problems or issues, language can get in the way some times but generally everything gets sorted eventually.
We have now all got our Qatar driving licences, a bit of a rigmarole, photo’s eye tests etc, but we all passed and are now able to drive here, our licences are also endorsed to drive not only cars but also motorbikes, heavy truck and trailers and diggers on tracks, cool, let me lose.
We are still in the Hotel although Sue and Stu were moved out today to an apartment and we are expecting to be all gone by the 7th of April so just a few more days of the high life. The apartments are in an area called Al Hitmi and close to the Souq’s in the old part of town and the Corniche, so we will have plenty to do in the evenings.
Now that we have our licences we are able to lease a car so that is next on the agenda as the drivers we have had supplied will no longer be available from next week. So we are now busy trying to locate a good deal. Colleen’s company is trying to broker a bit of a deal with a couple of car outfits so hopefully we will be mobile by the weekend. We are planning to share with a couple of the guys and I will be the driver. Lease prices are in the region of 1900 Riyals ($650) for a Nissan Tida (2008) up to 2700 Riyals ($950) for a Toyota Camary four cylinder model (2008). Petrol costs 75 Dirams (25 cents) a litre so that is not to bad.
Work does not look promising at this time. I have spoken to a couple of Kiwi guys in the Construction Industry and they are keeping their eyes open for me, so will just have to wait and see. In the mean time driving the others around will keep me busy.
Tonight we plan to go to the Corniche and take a Dhow ride across the harbour to the Sheraton to experience the hospitality, it takes about 20 minutes and the harbour and city by night should look rather nice. I think we are then going to walk back around the Corniche to Ridges Hotel and the Aussie bar for a couple of quite Heinies.
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