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Another good example of your writing ability. Great description of Doha! And I spent only a month there!
So I take it Qatar Tourism isn’t hiring you to increase World Cup sales? Holy hell, I’ve written critical things about places but my hat’s off to your description. I didn’t know about the sky. I thought the desert always had blue sky. Welcome home, babe. By the way, the skies in Italy are still very blue.
John!!! LOL! This year was particularly bad with the dust storms. For sure the vast majority of the time the sky there is dust colored, but this year was just over the top with the dust storms and the lack of fresh air. Trying to handle it took a lot out of me.
Welcome home, Chandi! Maybe it will take a while for you to adjust to the altered vista, but I’m so happy for you right now!!!
California is indeed colorful, even in a drought; hope the dust storms didn’t follow you home from Doha!
Lovely photos. I think it probably was a sort of handicap that your home in California is in one of the most favored places on Earth for climate and lush vegetation (although I imagine the drought is affecting all the plants). I enjoy your writing very much, keep it up. BTW, does this cri de coeur mean you’re not going back to Qatar? Kinda sounds like it, although you didn’t say so explicitly.
Yes Marcia, all the British expats I met in Qatar (and I mean ALL that I met without fail) were SO HAPPY to be in Qatar because of the weather. But when I said where I was from, they replied in an astounded voice, “If you’re from California, What are you doing in Qatar?