Life is busy at the moment
wow, busy busy February.... from our trip to the tip of Qatar called Al Gahiya on the Al Shamal (North Road), it took us about 2 hours to get there that is with stops along the way. Not much to see, lots of sand and dunes and rocks. The sea at Al Gahiya is very very blue, but mainly from the limestone in it. It is very smelly, and not s sea that you would want to swim in. But very very pretty!! Week 2 of Feb was spent exploring the Zekreet area. We went through Zekreet town, with a total of about 10 houses, on to the movie set that has been built for the crews to do desert type movies, and a "kraal" like donga area with round stone huts, all looked rather eerie. On our travels we passed by hikers (who we thought were all mad to even contemplate hiking the desert), but then we saw mountain bikers and then realised that they were really really mad :-) it was so hot we actually felt really sorry for them.... We did find a lovely spot on the beach, with a wind barrier of r...