Day 99. Tuesday November 9th. Doha, Qatar.

We have a six hour lay-over on our flight from Luxor to Bangalore, India and so we pay the immigration taxes and hire a taxi to drive us around for a couple of hours. A thunderstorm arrives and so we spend some time in Souke Waqif looking for an umbrella. It pours and pours for an hour and then stops. We are told that it will rain like that four times a year and that’s all the rain they will get. That’s OK., it’s the first we have seen for a while, it hasn’t rained in Egypt for four years. Doha doesn’t seem very interesting, looks like the pictures of Dubai that we have seen with newly constructed islands with skyscrapers on them and Rolls-Royce and Ferrari dealership showrooms connecting them. But we have never been to the Gulf and so it’s still interesting for us. Our Pakistani taxi driver manages to get home once per year to see his wife and kids. He tells us that 70% of the people in Qatar are migrant workers.