Is Aden your final destination?
At the end of April, having been in Qatar for more than a year, I decided that I needed to step up the adventure and experience quotient and look further afield for a bit of excitement. Where did I choose? Ever since I met my friends in Souq Waqif, here in Doha, and having been moved by their charm, their warmth, their sincerity, their joy of life, not to mention their excellent dance moves of course!!…. I have wanted to go to Yemen. When one of my closest friends got stuck in Yemen at the end of last year just as the new Qatari Amir changed the visa rules so that Yemenis could no longer visit Doha, I made up my mind. I would visit Yemen somehow, despite all the warnings, dangers and difficulties securing a visa. I read that, as a British passport holder, the only way for me to visit would be to book with a tour company and be accompanied by a guide at all times. OK for a tourist visit, to see the sights, such as the incredible Haid Al-Jazil in Wadi Doan, Hadramout (pi