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  1. Doha - Half-Day City Tour

    Blog: Andy's Rotten Ideas - 3 September 2009

    During my tour to Italy with my wife and her colleagues, we transited at Doha (capital and largest city of Qatar) while waiting for the next flight. Our tour guide engaged a local city tour of Doha. Doha does offer tour packages that allow tourists to experience Doha’s sight-seeing while waiting for the next flight during transit.

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  2. Doha, Qatar

    Blog: By Way of the World - 30 August 2009

    Qatar is a small country next to Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula, not too far away from Dubai. Native Arabs only consist of about 20% of the current population; the rest consists of workers brought in from many other parts of the world (including Nepal which I think is why the flight was so cheap on this route). We'd decided to stop there for a few days since our flight had a 12-hour layover anyway. We hadn't made it to Dubai as originally planned, so we figured Qatar would be interesting.

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  3. McArabia: McDonald’s in the Arab World

    Blog: Everything Everywhere - 29 April 2009

    Since I last wrote about McDonald’s when I was in Dubai, I’ve been in Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and Jordan. As all of the McDonald’s in the Arabian Peninsula are owned by the same company, there isn’t a whole lot to add to what I had to say about McDonald’s in Dubai. I [...]

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