Delicious Doha

Excellent day Thursday! Our local JCI host Josy met us in his Honda CR-V (all these guys have production-friendly vehicles....fabulous!). Met some very nice guys who are channel partners of our client, and afterwards they took us to a scrumptious lunch of traditional Iranian food. Lots and lots of it. Our main host kept prodding Ryan to eat more (have more lamb! have more prawns! eat the bread before it gets cold!). Oh, the bread! Made in a very very hot clay pit thing, it was delicious. As was the mint tea at the end of the meal. After our shoot we chilled for a bit then strolled out in Doha in search of dinner. While Bobbi's navigational skills enhance in London, mine decline in Doha. After heading the wrong way on Suhim bin Hamad St., Ryan spun us around and got us to Al Miroab street...kind of a 53rd street of the area. Lots of shops and restaurants. We checked one place out, decided against it, and as we walked out a local guy walked out behind us and in nicely-accented English we hear, "This is the best arabic food in Doha." We chatted and joked for a sec, then decided---with an endorsement like that, how could we say no? So up we went into the 2nd floor dining room of the Al Sultan Restaurant, and he was right. Awesome hummos, awesome matoubal, incredible yogurt-with-cukes, terrific falafal...best I've ever had....with very subtle, delicious tahini sauce. Judith, you would love this place! After that we walked it off back to the hotel. Now it's Friday, for many the only day off of the week (some get saturday off as well), and I've had another nice breakfast at the Hyde Park Coffee Shop here in the hotel (yes, seriously), now Ryan and I prepare to head to the Corniche area of the city to enjoy the souks, watch the parade of dhows and perhaps the racing boats, and like that.