Greetings from Doha! Capital of Qatar but just looks like any other brand spanking new international airport. An alcohol free country, apparently, but the Johnnie Walker's is flying off the shelves downstairs in duty-free like sonw off a dyke...!
Anyway, we arrived on time and we now have five hours to fill before our next flight out at 00:45. Local time is now 9.30 pm, so that's 6.30 pm UK time. So far, so good. The woman in Glasgow airport got so confused over boarding passes that she forgot to charge us the baggage excess - ooops! The woman in Gatwick was so busy checking in six heavy bags that she didn't notice us 'repacking' our hand baggage so that we got through with bags that were just a tad heavier than they should have been... So, thank you Lord for getting us and our baggage this far.
I've developed a stinking cold - please pray that it shifts before we get to Cambodia and start infecting people there... But otherwise, we're all well, well fed, well 'in-flight entertained' (I can recommend Qatar Airways) and well ... off to sleep, if we can get our heads down (although the lights in this gleaming, white, tiled airport concourse are a little cruel for that. However, I did notice a 'Sleep Room' on my way to the toilet so we might take turns checking that out! But I'm not sure I should adopt a reclining position - I opted to wear my kilt rather than carry it, so that's generating the inevitable stares and odd looks!
Next stop Bangkok - talk to you from there, maybe!
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Glad to hear you got to Doha OK. This blogging lark is a bit mystifying - you never said anything about username and password, so we tried a few and got blocked, and had to create a new one! I even phoned Elainea and she told me how simple it was, but not without the ID!!! So, I suppose you need to know the ID I'm now using - the password is Grace18, and now everyone will know it too - can't help that. If I didn't need to tell you, let me know and I can always change it to another one again. Had a good day here with lots of family to stop the house feeling too empty. Made icing flowers with Storm this afternoon, and then we did a blind coloured icing test - not surprisingly black icing is a different flavour to white...did you need to know that......well, you never know when it might be useful in Cambodia. Stuart's friend Ross doesn't have viral meningitis after all, but they don't know what iti is yet. Got to go now. Love, Ruth
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