{"id":13481,"date":"2018-01-29T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=13481"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:56:04","slug":"13481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=13481","title":{"rendered":"Arabian Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday January 29, 2018<\/p>\n<p>I arrived in Doha, Qatar early this morning after two seven hour flights with an hour stopover in London. I cleared customs, obtained a tourist visa, found an ATM to exchange dollars to Riyals, and caught a taxi. So, when I arrived at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, I was very tired but excited. \u00a0I had arrived in the &#8220;Richest Country in the World!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3826-e1518699883684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13486\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3826-e1518699883684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I slept for a few hours but was awakened at two o&#8217;clock by housekeeping who wanted to clean the room. Afterwards, I showered, dressed and went down to explore the hotel and take pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3886-e1518699788457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13488\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_3886-e1518699788457.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hotel is huge:4 restaurants (Italian, Thai, American, &amp; Turkish) and 2 bars, several pools, lovely gardens, and a private beach. There are also &#8220;villas&#8221; on the property for families. I took the photo below in the American restaurant named the Santa Monica Breakfast Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13497\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone I met today in Doha was friendly and helpful. They&#8217;re hard working young people (&#8220;ex-pats&#8221;) who came to Qatar to work and earn money. They were from everywhere: Tunisia, Tibilisi Georgia, Eritrea, Thailand, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13498\" src=\"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3853.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I rested and relaxed at the Grand Hyatt today and planned to go into the city of Doha tomorrow after a good night&#8217;s sleep. \u00a0This was a great beginning of my Arabian Adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday January 29, 2018 I arrived in Doha, Qatar early this morning after two seven hour flights with an hour stopover in London. I cleared customs, obtained a tourist visa, found an ATM to exchange dollars to Riyals, and caught a taxi. So, when I arrived at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, I was very tired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabian","category-qatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13481"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}