Thursday Evening

We went for our first drive to the Corniche this evening. Traffic was not too bad really considering that it is probably equivalent to a Friday evening in Brisbane. Kerry did well considering this was our first real adventure on the roads outside our usual safety zone. It just all takes a little time to get used to.

We had a little walk around Al Bidda Park, which is a “family only park” – no “bachelors” allowed. It is about halfway along Al Corniche Street and while it maybe one of the major children’s playgrounds in the city (or maybe that is just one of the most well-known), it is actually really small (probably the same size as the children’s playground at New Farm Park in Bris). Even so it will be a nice place to escape when the weather cools down a little more.

Quite a few families, but mostly women in black sitting around on the grass while children of various races did what children do when they get to a playground (in other words Ashur had fun). Was a little hot and sticky, but really I don’t think it is too much different from a Bris summer apart from that burning sun during the middle of the day and the level of humidity in the mornings.

Regardless of the park, there was a gorgeous full moon that came up over the Gulf. That’s where it all is very surreal I think. While it is obvious that we are in a foreign country by all the funky scribbly writing, it still seems a bit strange when you sit back and think that just outside Doha Bay is the Arabian Gulf… and then out there in one direction is UAE and in the other is Iran. ‘tis all a big weird actually…