Update from the beach

I just wanted to give a short update from a the beach here in Doha, where I spent my weekend (or Friday at least) with @danblah and @KateGardiner.

Going to the beach here was be a little bit different to what I initially thought. There are definitely open public beaches, but because it's so seriously hot this time of the year it requires some extra preparation. You need to bring your own sun cover, sun screen, a beach cooler, huge amounts of bottled water and also carry everything around. So what people usually end up doing (and what we did) is going to a hotel beach, which costs around 30-50 Euro. But it's totally worth it because of the palm tree shadows, refreshment bars, the cooled pool and waiters serving you wet towels :) Although it's always something special about swimming in the ocean, it's so warm it's not actually cooling you down anything. So the cooled down pool is awesome :)

Notice: I've updated my Flickr account with lots of photos from different adventures I've had in Qatar so far. I'll eventually blog about them all, so don't worry ;)