Qatar Dayz!

Heya! ;) Got back from Qatar 3 days ago. I always enjoyed this country. It suddenly jumped from being just a small place to the new Dubai in just four years! Ok maybe not the new Dubai to be exact, but it’s heading there. After their discovery of gas things are beginning to change magnificently, and I won’t be surprised if it became the new ‘thing’ in the world.

My cousin and I decided to take a one week trip to Qatar. We have a close relative there who keeps asking us to come from time to time. And when the time was right, we packed our things and headed there without any delay. We arrived at 2 p.m which was perfect. We had time to sleep and take some rest before going out to our usual places. At 5.30 or so we went out to the famous mall ‘Villagio’. We had coffee and dessert and then went on to check out the shops and what else is new. One important thing I did is heading to ‘Virgin Megastore’ to ask about a specific book. I always enjoyed the T.V Series “CASTLE”, and part of their marketing was publishing novel relating to the series. Sadly, Virgin informed me that they don’t have it. I guess Amazon will ultimately be the solution. Afterwards, we had dinner at Villagio as well since there wasn’t enough time to head anywhere else.

Official website: http://villaggioqatar.com/

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The following morning we went to another famous place ‘The Pearl’. Aaaah can’t describe how magnificent this place is! The beach, the yachts, coffee shops, restaurants and famous designer’s boutiques. First thing we did is having a nice hot coffee in ‘Chocolate Bar’, and boy… what a sinful thing we ate!

Yummmy...

Of course, during the week we went to the pearl a couple more times. Not just because it was a great place, but the weather was by far the best we’ve witnessed in Qatar in years and we figured that it would be a shame if we didn’t enjoy it in the right places.

The Pearl: http://www.thepearlqatar.com/main.aspx

My cousins wanted to see a movie afterwards, and they agreed on watching Avatar! I saw the movie earlier but I didn’t complain…… actually I was for it!. Avatar was one of those few movies where it’s easy for you to enjoy watching it again. However, when we entered.. something bothered a lot. Lots of scenes were deleted and I didn’t quite understand why. Was it because they wanted to shorten it – the movie’s original full l runtime is 2 hours and 42 minutes – or they figured that there were some boring details that didn’t matter?!. It was really annoying. Even the cuts were done a non professional way. It’s sad really, to screw up such a good peace of genius for lame excuses, but thankfully, my cousins managed to enjoy the movie despite all this.

For dinner, we went to W Hotel. It was my first time visiting it and I must say I’m impressed! We dined at the ‘Spice Market’ and it was really crowded. Our dishes were mainly based on salads and Sushi. Everything was exceptionally delicious, especially the Tampora sushi & Mango salad *Drooooools*. My only remark on the restaurant was that the service was kinda slow, but it was redeemed when the food came.

Picture isn't that clear but the taste is great!

And who could forget one of the best cultural places in Al Doha? “Soog Waqef”! . We went there 3 times and I must say we can’t get enough of it!. It presents deep cultural roots combined by a variety of small Lebanese + Italian restaurants that provide excellent food and service.

This was basically what I did in Qatar and I can’t wait to visit it again and again. I'm sure that I've bored you to death! But a blog isn’t a blog unless you try your best to say whatever you wanna say ;)

XOXO