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Laidover

I'm somewhere in the middle of a 16-hour layover in Doha, Qatar. Got in from Paris at 5am and my flight to India's not till 9pm, whoops. I tried to arrange a day tour of the city before I came, but everything I found required a minimum of two people. In retrospect I probably should have booked a hotel and gotten an exit visa, but at least I have a lot of movies on my new netbook.

I did manage to grab maybe three hours of sleep in one of the quiet lounges before being woken up by a call to prayer; the mosque is right next to the sleeping lounge. Now I'm catching up on emails and photos and drinking too much coffee and bottled water purchased with my credit card because I don't want to change dollars to riyals.

The euro segment of this trip was definitely fun, but I'm ready to get along to India. I kinda want to park it for a bit in Arambol (Goa), where my only responsibility is a 2.5-hour Ashtanga class at 9am, and maybe some writing and beach time in the afternoon. How many hours are left in this layover...?