Greetings all. Been working the last 10 days in the State of Qatar. It's a strange place - very wealthy thanks to oil and gas, but flooded with migrant workers from all over. The traffic is terrible, mostly due to impatient people and an abundance of roundabouts. In Doha there are accidents all the time.
Managed to catch the Doha Open tennis, the tickets were free to everybody and it was no problem getting a seat - the population here is roughly only 800,000 but they have the cash to host world class events like this. Doha is bidding for the 2016 olympics.
The weather here's been sunny but cold - for the gulf - so cold it's been in the news. The daytime temperatures have been a max of 10-14C, getting down to 4 at night. The locals are wearing winter jackets. There was a sandstorm one night, too.
My work here is something of a paradox - moving from the extravagant Four Seasons Hotel in Doha to the dry and dusty industrial area and the rig camp in the desert in the north of Qatar.
Looking forward to finishing up and getting back to Sweden, in most aspects except filling up the car with petrol. I filled up the SUV here the other day for €7. It's cheaper by volume than bottled water.
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