Just a quick update on the last week:

Tuesday 7 May
Started golf lessons at the only golf club in Doha. For QR550 I get six hour long lessons from a pro; it was excellent and well worth the money. I don't think I'll take it much further than the lessons but an occasional blast on the driving range might be useful to relieve any stress that builds up.

Friday 10 May
The first Diamond League Athletics Event of the season took place in Doha to a packed, and enthusiastic, crowd. Unlike the football match I watched there a few weeks ago the stadium, which holds over ten thousand I would guess, was rammed. I got to see a whole load of ex-world champions and Olympic medallists close-up; I even recognised some from the TV.

Thought I'd include a few general shots of where we live just to give you a flavour our new neighbourhood and how it's hotting up:

The entrance to Education City
Community Housing Lot1

Our apartment block - we are on the second floor,
back right

View of the apartment from outside the compound
we are the second floor, right in the middle

 

View looking right from the entrance
of our apartment

View looking directly across from the entrance
of our apartment

Short and sharp blog this time as I need to get ready for work again tomorrow. There may not be much to report from out-and-about as the temperature is really starting to climb; it was registering C42 on the car external thermometer today. We'll very soon be restricted to dashing from the air conditioned apartment, to the air conditioned car, to the air conditioned office, nipping into an air conditioned shopping mall on the way home, and quickly back into the air conditioned apartment again. No wonder so many ex-pats are ghostly pale and have very little suntan to speak of.

So must rush. Cheers for now!

Boyd