Ad Dawḩah al Jadīdah

Up at Sparrows this morning: 5am 🕔 packed and ready to depart the cesspit that is ‘Putrid Papillo’ 🏨
There is not one member of our tour group that is determined to bombard the review pages in smear campaigns to rival a Trump Administration! Not much is guaranteed in life but this is: Never 👎🏻 again!

Anyway… Neil…”….letting it go..!” 😝

Seamless airport check-in and security. Rome’s airport is fantastic. Clean, efficient & the staff actually look refreshed & happy to be there; a rare sight these days! A+ ✈️

TripADeal actually has worked for us well on our journey home (…well, for me anyway…) I’m really excited 😜 for the long 27 hour layover because it means they booked us a 5 star hotel complete with personal transfers to & from: bonus holi-day if you ask me!Booked a tour for a sightseeing around Doha and break up an otherwise relentlessly long journey Down Under A+ TripADeal 👏

As a Privilege Member on Qatar 🇶🇦 ✈️ I get complimentary wi-fi for an hour! How spiffy to actually get internet 🛜 access 35,000 feet 👣 in the air! Fun 🤩

Qatar is such a great airline! One of the best! I would never hesitate in recommending flying with them. The meals were and are delicious and the service is great A+ Qatar 🇶🇦

On arrival in Doha we discovered just how quiet 🤫 and clean the airport really is! Spotless 👍🏻 🧽
We also discovered how efficient the processes are because when we went up to the Doha information counter the workers knew exactly who we were and immediately took our bags and us in a chauffeured limousine to the Holiday Inn 🏨 which is a cut above anything we have stayed in this holiday! It is five star ⭐️ with a pool 🏊‍♂️ and a bar which we discovered sells glasses of wine 🍷 for $25 and cocktails 🍸 for $35! We don’t mind spending generously on holidays but not ridiculously so we went out into the 40° heat ☀️🥵 and found an authentic little restaurant and got an entire meal 🥘 for less than $40. It was very Indian influenced and the owners were very kind and generous, and knew all about the MCG and the cricket in Australia 🇦🇺😝
German felt his stomach churning so we came back to the comfort of our five star 🌟 establishment and called it a night… Tour planned tomorrow: covering the main sites so that will be my final holiday post… With a heavy heart… 🥺😢💜
LT, like the gals in Sex & the City 🌆 we may even run into Richard Spurt out & about tomorrow 😉😝💦☀️

And an interesting tidbit for you… Our limousine driver told us that you can be fined if you don’t have air conditioning in your car for the tourists when they arrive 🙏👍🏻☀️Read more