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Followers of this blog will already be aware that Doha is a city of construction, and also, sadly, a lot of destruction.
The old parts of the city are being torn down at an alarming rate to make way for the new and big at an even more alarming rate. And yes there are cranes...
Big cranes, little cranes, old cranes, new cranes, red cranes, blue cranes ( Thanks Dr S )...They have them all here and everywhere you look, there they are, in all their majestic glory...( they do bring back my distant boyhood meccano memories )....In a couple of the photos there aren't any cranes and these couple slipped through, but are however of the site that I am working on. And yes we do have a small crane on the roof but it's days are numbered as the site nears ( I use this term loosely ) completion. I guess it will be dismantled and bought back down to earth via the lifts - when they are going. I get to walk lots of flights of stairs much to the displeasure of my poor legs.
It will one day be fascinating to come back here when all the construction has finished. We still havent quite worked out what the focus of all the re-building of this city is all about and what the plan is - if indeed there is one. It all seems a bit haphazard and much of the architecure, to my mind, is not pretty. You do however appreciate the few buildings that do look good. It certainly keeps ( I'm sure )over half the population employed, including me, so I dont want to be seen to complain too much....If only they would do something about the roads which seem dreadfully inadequate for the amount of vehicles using them....There is that planning issue again. Somebody just didn't get that part right at all....On a good day it takes me 10 minutes to get to work...That can more often become 40 minutes on other days, and I'm sure that that time will get beaten very soon. It is very frustrating when you can see where you want to go, but just can't quite seem to make it.....If Tarzan were here he would probably just swing from crane to crane....which all goes on to say that it really is a jungle out there. A concrete jungle. ( Thanks Bob M ).