End of week 5

Now at the end of my fifth week working on the Shell Pearl GTL project in Qatar. A very hot week, one day the air temperature exceeded 50 deg C, and a coleague today told me that where he was working, the outside thermometrer read 58 deg C. Just been to the gym, and spent an hour and a half at the pool. Tomorrow I start week six, integrating one of our sub-systems. My Doha to Heathrow flight home is at 01:50 Thursday morning. Hopefully I will be home
by 09:00 Thursday, to start my two week or so break, before flying back to Qatar on 7th August 2010. The picture shows Palm Drive, my home for now. Very quiet because of the heat. I live right at the bottom, about two minute walk from the sign. The dining hall is about two minute walk behind me in the opposite direction. So I have a good brisk stroll twice a day, to breakfast and dinner. Lunch is eaten on the Shell site.