Two odd photos from Hamad International in Doha for a Sunday ….

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• James says:

  26 Oct26 October 06:14

  What genius thought of the giant teddy sculpture? :O

• john says:

  26 Oct26 October 07:21

  They paid $6.8mm for that bear at auction. You have to hand it to the artist, that is a lot of money for some bronze. There are two others in private collections.

  • JQ says:

    26 Oct26 October 07:57

    I’ll make one for my private collection for $6.80 (Barbados dollars)

• Erico1875 says:

  26 Oct26 October 08:49

  I suppose money was tight at the end of the project.

• Danksy says:

  26 Oct26 October 09:45

  Haha, made me laugh!

• Blacksmith says:

  26 Oct26 October 10:53

  Look for the bear necessities the simple bear necessities!

• PICT says:

  26 Oct26 October 11:14

  I went through a month ago and thought the exact same thing about the shops and bear, there was a Hamleys shop hidden away also

• takke says:

  26 Oct26 October 12:29

  I too was shocked when I saw a Camden food co. outlet at Vancouver airport in Canada a while back… really spoiled the idea of it being an ‘authentic London brand’ for me 😛

• sqills says:

  26 Oct26 October 13:27

  Incidentally, are there any bars serving booze at the airport?

  I worked in Qatar many moons ago and at the time there were was no booze on sale in the on-trade ie bars, cafes, hotels etc.

  I gather since then that hotels have been permitted to sell alcohol.

  But at the airport?

  • Rob says:

    26 Oct26 October 16:55

    Krug for breakfast in the lounge as you will see on Tuesday!

    • squills says:

      26 Oct26 October 20:59

      Ah but lounges are closed areas, I would expect that. But are there any public bars in the concourse where you could see people ‘imbibing’? I think the main point is to keep it discreet and a great big pub/ up-market oyster bar etc wouldn’t be that..

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