well as some of you know i have moved to qatar.

moved with family and pretty much everything except the cossies

will be vorking here for a 1-3 years in a big company dealing with aluminium.

things here are not quite what we are used to when it comes to effiency

things take alot of time .have been here for 14 days and so far i have been at work only 2 days.now its ramadan and working hours are 07.30 to 12.30 and its flexible in both end by an half hour wich in real life is 08-12 but could be anything inbetween

will try to get some pics up soon.

cheers
Geir

 

Bit of a change out there i bet!!

Very hot?

 

nice one ! Whats the weather like? What are the roads like? and cant you find out about bringing a Cosworth into that country

 

a big change

temp in the day varies from 38-55 degrees and at night its 38-45

no rain

 

the roads are quite good but in the town centre its always construction work so the roadmaps are quite useless.even the gps have a lot of trouble her.

on the plus side you can drive like a lunatic everywhere

100 in the 50 kmh zone(city centre)

170 in the 120 zone.thats as fast as the landcruiser does

cheers

 

I was in Doha straight after the first Gulf War helping get contracts back up and running on the Qapco plant up North. It was a bit of a dust bowl back then and we didnt see sunlight for months due to the oil fires in Kuwait

I understand its gone the way of Abu Dhabi now and is quite a nice place to be

 

Aye sounds sweet ...

What are they doing out there? Mining Bauxite?

I know what you mean by different standards when it comes to work ... Things in Canada would drag and they just waste money but it's big Money so they factor that waste into the budget

 

We need pics!

good luck with the job, i could do with working those hours!!

 

Are you in Doha, I'm there next week. Ramadan is a fucking pain in the arse, you can't get anything done!

 

Why?! Are you taking part?

 

Living in a Muslim country I don't have much choice!

 

PMSL

your chance to loose the belly

 

Also all of the authorities are closed so can't get any building approvals etc making work very difficult!

 

will be in doha probably.work and live in mesaiid.

 

i´m hired in as a expert trainer to help them start the biggest aluminium smelter in the world.

will be mainly working in the casthouse for both foundry alloys and extrusion ingots.

 

some random pics
casthouse street

pool at the club

manual labour

the bloody car

 

that pool must be a great way to cool down in the shade

 

yep.quite good actually.

 

went out in the desert the other day
quite good actually and good fun

the kids are waiting


the cowboy himself (me!)waiting for the desert


the cars going out


stupid arab trying to plunge his landcruiser into outer space and got stuck


doing around 130 km/h here


benny hill named after a guy called benny who rolled his car here the first time
claiming "driving in the desert is quite easy,look hows its done"
quite scary hill actually since you drive up on the backside and cant see anything before you go down again


swimming in the inland sea.thats saudi-arabia in the background



thats it for this update

 

i'd love to drive on the dunes; looks good fun!

 

Me and the other half are going out to Doha next year as his sister is married to a guy now working for one of the Sheiks out there.

We are definately going on those damned dunes...I want to try sand surfing

 

bet you wont see this in the UK
police on patrol

 

Top pics you did the best thing getting out of this country.

 

Wow that looks amazing. The last pic looks as if its going dark but suppose there just isnt a fluffy cloud in sight. How are you and the family
coping with the heat. 35-50oc is damn hot
Also whats the food like??

 

jesus thats serious heat mate, is there still plenty work out there yet have heard a few people on about work out there? hope everything works out for you's, hugh

 

fantastic pictures!

 

Whats security like???? seems to be soo different across the gulf with some places security to the max with westerners living in secure armed guarded compounds and others where you live with no real security because you dont need it.

Such a contrast!!!

 

Looks cool and hot if that makes sense,lol

 

security is not really needed here.very little crime

quite a safe country except for the driving which can be very interresting
with all the crazy arabs and especially indians driving around

 

well bought myself one of these to bash around in the desert


4.2 liter straight six.who needs a diesel

 

Cool looks brilliant out there... would love to get out of the UK for good...

 

long time since i updated things here but here goes

got a new landcruiser (grey this time)fully loaded etc etc

found a ls1 engine thats going in the patrol

and planning to buy this next week


hmm where to buy a supercharger for both

 

You utter twat, I'm looking at getting one of them Been over to Dubai looking at the CSV's and importing one as its faster, more power and kit and looks a lot meaner.

I've been here 2 years now and the change in that time is impressive, but it is always like living and working on a building site Best change is the Belgian Beer Cafe in the Intercon

Least if you buy the Lumina, you have a car you can use on the trackdays at Losail. That's my reason for buying one!!

 

While you there kepp an eye out for this, She got a taxi to Qatar from Jordan last week, said she's staying there for a couple o weeks,
Russian lass, fairly versatile

 

I'd like to live and work out there

 

compared to Slough mate, i aint surprised!

 

Rofl

 

can get them fairly cheap here,was one 2008 model for sale a couple of weeks ago 58k QAR was sold for 53K.

was looking for a gtr r34 type but all are ruined by conversion to lefthand steering.

if you want something cheap to run around losail,there is a SS in industrial area cheap 10K

 

Is that an old 2006 one, I think I know which one you mean?

Been a few up on carsemsar.com and qatarsale and qatarliving. Had a look at one a couple of weeks ago. Tidy enough, but just qatari chavved enough to put me off for the 65000 he was asking for it.

Mate is importing KR Mustangs at the moment, so that may also be an option. Don't do much dune bashing, normally just grab a quad down near Sealine and go mental for a couple of hours.

 

buy a old one then 2004-5 model,trash it around losail until its dead and sell to a poor lebanese or egyptian

btw dunebashing is quite fun,thats what the patrol is for,landcruiser for shopping