In the past few weeks I’ve been through four Muslim countries and my only complaint really is the call to players when your hotel is near a mosque. This morning I was awakened around 4 am as I have been many times over the last few weeks and I’m not going to miss that, usually at my house it will be the cats or the dogs making a racket on the odd occasion or sometimes the birds will get up too early if there is a full moon.

The food, well I have not enjoyed much of the food I’ve come across and I’ll be looking forward to eating at home. Many of the flavours and more so feeling satisfied afterwards was a rare experience. A couple of meals in Egypt and the food in Wadi Rum was good. I had a couple of good meals in Greece but I also felt the fat attaching itself to my waist line. The Pudding Shop food in Istanbul I think was the best, the snow outside also helped me to enjoy the soup and the Goulash and I didn’t get that fatty feeling afterwards.

In Greece at breakfast there was always salad and cold meat on the breakfast platter but I need more than this to start my day. I’m not sure why they say that the Mediterranean diet is good for you, I didn’t like it and I would rather lose a few years of life to enjoy my food a little more.

I didn’t have much fruit and I’ll change that when I get home. Yoghurt and almonds and good coffee, Greece was the best place for coffee and not too expensive.

Qatar is not a place I’ll return to unless I transit the country, there’s not too much of interest here and everything is expensive, apart from some of the electronics.

And on the subject of Qatar, I tried to talk to someone about the compensation due to me because of the initial flight delays, no one can help me. I need to contact customer service by email they tell me and the real customer service in the airport can’t help me, they can’t even send an email to anyone to ask them on my behalf, why I’ve had no response for the past month.

And they have won the best airline for 7 years!!!!!

I will be composing another long email on the coming days.