Matrah Souq
This past weekend we decided to see something cultural and visit Matrah Souq (pronounced sook), which is an open air market. We decided to go in the afternoon, a silly thing to do.
The thing is everything shuts down around midday for prayer. We arrived and everything was closed. UGH! Ok, we’ll go watch Beauty and the Beast now and then we’ll go to the Souq tomorrow (Saturday).
Side note, we were Poke-walking before this and the little shops in the park closed. We finished our water and were both really thirsty. We thought we’d buy some water by the souq but alas, everything was closed.
Jurie: Don’t worry we’ll get something by the movies.
It’s a 10-minute drive to the movies and my mouth felt like the desert I could see outside!
At the movies, we quickly bought our tickets and didn’t buy popcorn (priorities!!) but we bought slushies.
Here comes problem number 2, it's ice and not liquid. Here I was sitting in the cinema sucking through a straw that would not give me anything. Finally, in frustration, I opened the top of the cup and shovelled the ice into my mouth using the straw.
So two lessons were learnt that day…
1) Always carry an extra bottle of water with you.
2) While slushies are awesome movie beverages, don’t buy it if you are dying of thirst.
Beauty and the Beast.
Oh wow! What a fantastic movie. Team van D give this movie five stars *****. I don’t like to advertise this to just anyone but under this ice cold exterior beats the heart of a softy. I’m not a sentimental person but this movie just brought back so many childhood memories and I found my eyes leaking once or twice. So do yourself a favour and watch this movie.
The Souq again
So we looked up the times that the souq opens (which we should have done the day before) and found it opened at 7am – 11am then from 5pm -11pm. So we went at 8:30am to be on the safe side. Yet again everything was closed. What the hell google?! Some of the shops were opening but then we found a sign that said the Souq opens not at 7am but at 8am! Seriously?! But I guess that would basically explain this place, information is subjective. But still the sign said 8am and it was past that time and only 5 shops were opening. We did find a souvenir place and bought a few things. We also have some nice pictures of the promenade near the market.
Lessons learnt that day
1 1 ) Have patience because you won’t get all the information you need at once but it bits.
2 2) Don't take everything too seriously and just go with the flow.
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