This has the makings of the worst, shortest and most useless Travelblog ever, but its one for Qatar and I see there are not too many of them plus its a really small red dot on my Travelblog map. My plane ride from Cairo was alright. I had a good selection of music to listen to on the plane and it gave my ipod a rest and it refreshed my mind of the music I forgot to add to it before I left. Food was plane(!) food and the red wine and G & T's went down niceley. Doha airport just [View Full Entry]

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Just passing through, really. I had a brief stop-over in Dhoa on my way to Bangkok. To be honest, this entry is mostly just to give me "credit" for another country. Qatar airways is apparently one of the few "5-star" airlines in the world. Whatever that means... I had a decent time with them. I got a cheap flight from Istanbul, which for some reason included a hotel stay in Doha. Our flight was randomly delayed for an hour in Istanbul, but I didn't care because my connecting flight to BKK wasn't until the next day. I was supposed to stay [View Full Entry]

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En route to Egypt, we had a one-night stopover in Doha, Qatar courtesy of Qatar Airways. This was my first (of many, hopefully!) time in a Middle-Eastern country, and I was surprised by how clean and organized the place was! [View Full Entry]

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The date for this blog is Nov 1997 but I have visited Qatar in recent years as well so I'll combine the trips. My first visit to Qatar was in the first year of teaching in Kuwait. My roommate was Ivan Velasco and his girlfriend was Kate Harvey - eventually married :) and doing well. They both worked in the Physical Education department with me and it was a fun group. Kate's dad worked for Mobil Oil in Qatar and I was invited to join them on a family visit. The compound that we stayed in was absolutely fantastic - like [View Full Entry]

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My trip to Qatar was in 1980 - a while back but since no post were listed for this country I thought I'd let folks know that I have been there. [View Full Entry]

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