What to enjoy at Qatar’s Hamad International Airport

The giant yellow teddy - Lamp Bear - is synonymous with Hamad International Airport.

Efficiency, variety and a giant yellow teddy bear. That’s what you can expect to enjoy – and so much more – at Qatar’s Hamad International Airport (HIA). After all, this airport is recognised as the world’s best. Some of the 60 million passengers HIA presently welcomes annually saw fit to acknowledge the airport’s distinctive Arabic […]

Being a domestic goddess in Doha, Qatar

I am a domestic goddess … Yep, while I still work with words for a living, I can add cleaning, ironing, mopping, washing, polishing and so forth in a foreign environment to my repertoire of capabilities. You see, after 15 months in Doha, Qatar, I now know my scrubbers from my scourers; what the best […]

Squeaky clean Doha awaits 

Cleaning

Pristine, polished, spotless, sparkly, spic and span, ship-shape, shiny … There just aren’t enough superlatives to describe just how comprehensively clean Doha is. This Middle Eastern city is squeaky clean on the grandest of scales. For my sake, and for the benefit of reading this post, please imagine the shiny luxury of a five-star mirrored […]