Monday, October 28, 2013

Bin Mahmoud

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Tonight I was wandering through the neighborhood of Bin Mahmoud just going for a walk and I noticed that in the last couple of years a numb...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Gundogan

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Gundogan is a small town about 20 minutes from the main tourist city of Bodrum. It has a number of nice hotels but unlike Bodrum it caters ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Kas

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We've moved on from Oludeniz about an hour down the coast to the small town of Kas. My friend Murat has an old friend who owns a small ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Fethiye

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Today we were on a boat tour of the nearby islands. As you can see, not a cloud in the sky. Had a great time wandering around in the boa...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Blue Lagoon

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Eid is approaching so of course it's time for a vacation. Today I'm in Fethiye, Turkey, enjoying the famous beach at Oludeniz (also...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Beirut Restaurant Closed

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I was in Souq Waqif the other night heading to one of my favorite restaurants, Beirut Restaurant, to get hummous, only to find it was close...
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Quick Trip to Dubai

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I was in Dubai for the weekend. Qatar Airways was having a seat sale and I had some good friends in Dubai that I had not seen for a long t...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Learning Arabic in Qatar

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So I've been continuing Arabic lessons and things have been going well. I've also found myself in a situation where I'm now wo...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Corniche Construction and Traffic

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Does anyone know if they are adding an additional lane to the Corniche and Al-Bidda Roads? I've heard from people that they think it is...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Ezdan Mall Update – 20th September 2013 (with 4th October updates)

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Well I happened to be at the mall today, here are the updates: Open : Mado, the popular Turkish café and ice cream chain. My Turkish f...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Astronomical Distances

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Reading about the Voyager 1 probe leaving the solar system got me thinking about the unbelievable distances there are in outer space. Voya...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Population Growth, Vehicle Growth

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In an intriguing coincidence, just a couple of days after my post about traffic congestion local newspapers have published a study by the S...
Friday, September 13, 2013

2013 Traffic Woes

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75 cars. That's my estimate for how many cars are added to the roads of Doha everyday. It's a conservative estimate as well, if y...
Friday, September 06, 2013

Are You New to Qatar?

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I took some time to go through my posts and created a new category that would be relevant to anyone who is thinking of moving to Qatar or h...
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Remember Your Building Number

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In Doha it can be very difficult to find the location of a building. The smaller streets in the neighborhoods can be so labyrinthine that ...
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Styles of Minarets in Qatar

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Over the years I've taken pictures of a number of mosques in Qatar because I always found the architecture interesting especially the m...
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