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Muscat – Day 3
Today is the day we’ve really been waiting for, post-World Cup of course. Time to go to Khasab! Now you may not have heard of Khasab before, but now you’ll be able to tell everyone that you know this random Omani fact. Oman is not a contiguous country, it has exclaves that are surrounded by…
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Muscat – Day 2
Well, after seeing the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque last night, we knew we had to go today. So, with that in mind we headed off. The mosque is only open to non-Muslims from 8 to 11 am and you must dress conservatively. Walking around the mosque yesterday we saw that renting clothing in the vicinity…
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Muscat (Oman) – Day 1
Well… we will call today “Day 1” because last night we landed so late and didn’t do anything but go to the hotel, but we will tell you about it anyway. Landing in Oman was easy. Pretty dark out, that’s for sure. The terminal had a few welcome things to greet us and then it…
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Qatar – Day 8
Well, the World Cup is over. What does that mean? It means it’s time for us to move on as well. It was a lot of fun while it lasted, and there were some great moments (and some bad as you read) but overall a fun time. But! That obviously doesn’t mean we’re done here. We…
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Qatar – Day 7
Our last full day in Qatar. Crazy to think. It seems like it all happened so quickly! But, it doesn’t matter. We have to focus. We HAVE to get into somewhere to watch the final. Our plan is FIFA FanFest. Knowing that we have failed to get into the official one in Brasil (although we…
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Qatar – Day 6
So this will be a shorter entry than the others, so please don’t expect too much from us. (Or so we thought). Today is the third place game, Morocco – Croatia! Hopefully it is another good atmosphere with a packed stadium in favour of Morocco. Let’s see! The reason this is shorter is because today is…
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Qatar – Day 5
Well, another “rest” day, time to fill it up with lots of things! We can’t really rest while so far from home, we want to take advantage of everything and see everything. And to start us off… Khalifa International Stadium. So you may be wondering why we came to a stadium on a rest day,…
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Qatar – Day 4
Here we go, our first “rest day” while in Qatar. Rest for the players and from the stadium, but definitely not in the sense of us staying in and relaxing all day. No, no, that would be too easy. Instead we get up and head down to the Souq Waqif metro station. The place looks…
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Qatar – Day 3
After what felt like a very short sleep, we’re ready to repeat it all again for today’s semifinal of Morocco vs France. We hope the fairy tale can continue! Today our plan is to try to go to some exhibits around Doha. Many of them have been made free for the World Cup so that…
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Qatar – Day 2
So we woke up in our Caravan Village, and are ready to get our day going! Today is game day! We were originally going to stay another night in Kuwait and arrive this morning, but the threat of missing the game today if anything went wrong was just too big, so here we are! Depending…
Check out my last World Cup trip on my old blog! You can find blog posts from my trip from Helsinki, Finland to Vladivostok, Russia.
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During that trip we visited Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ulan Ude, Sliudianka, Ulaanbataar, Chita, and Vladivostok. You can find the end of that trip on this website (Vladivostok, Tokyo, Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Beijing).