Yesterday was a very British day in Doha. Well as British as you can get in the desert anyway. Our company had been invited to participate in a British high street event at a party for Queen Liz at the British Embassy. This is the second time I've arrived somewhere new to live and ended up at an Embassy event within a few days of landing. I'm a bit narked I didn't get an invite in New Zealand now!
Anyway back to Doha. The party was fab, everyone was loving Lush (of course) we had amazing goody bags, lovely pampering treatments and we made the awesome Space Girl bath ballistic. Lush aside it was really great to see some other awesome British brands there on the night. I went home beaming, what a start to my role here so many people exposed to the wonders of Lush yay!
I do have to mention my faux pas of the night, come on you've all been waiting for the first one. So they had a brass band playing at the start of the night to welcome the guests and let's just say they weren't your traditional British brass band. They played a couple of tunes, threw in some bagpipes and then they played the Great Escape music. You know England football fans, that tune they play in the crowd at matches and for some reason I found this just hysterical. Obviously no one else did. Of course this just made me laugh more, people around me not overly impressed. Cue more laughing. I did manage to recover eventually but had the tune in my head aaaaaallll night long.
Right now I'm battling with wifi in the hotel so I might just post this and quit rambling for now. I'm planning on a bit of exploring tomorrow it should be quiet in the morning so I can get about a bit easier. I will take some photos too :)
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