Having an idle day to spend in Qatar I decided to get a good relaxing book, find a nice outdoors cafe and spend a couple of hours chilling out as I go through this interesting yet relaxing page turner, having none with me I decided to buy one. These days in egypt you'd never find a mall without a bookshop or two, al shorouk or virgin, stacked with all the types of books you can think off and of course they'd have all these relaxing page turners to pick from, people starting in cairo again and selling books actually returned to being a profitable business. However in qatar obviously its not, the mall closest to my home had no book shops at all even the carrefourz which is selling everything u can think off has 2 racks of the most un interesting books magazines ever, just going through the titles got me bored, of course and just to be fair other malls have virgin mega store, but the books sold there are also uninteresting, and the variety is no where close to the one we have in cairo.
As a result I decided to use one of the books I got with me from cairo, having the book I put on my headset with chillout music playing and sunglasses and decided to hit the nearest outdoors cafe around to soak in the sun while reading, after 20 minutes I gave up. Obviously due to the heat they have here around the year the concept of an outdoors cafe isn't really that popular here, if u want to sit somewhere u can either go sit on kornish or in an indoors cafe. I found a cafe with a nice view and proceeded to sit in that perfect spot over looking the business district towers, only to be told that these are families only tables and that I had to find somewhere else to sit in the cafe, the waitress then proposed that spot over looking nothing what so ever.
At that point I decided to give up go heading to starbucks I sat in that chair facing the wall drank my cappuccino as fas as I could and then headed home.
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