Leaving your mark

When we were last here we were a regular fixure at Rydges in the afternoons. Pretty much every day for 5 months we'd wander down use the gym, read the paper or book by the pool. The legends bar would open at about 4 oclock inthe afternoon. The bar staff would come and find us at our usual table by the pool. The lads got into a habit of having a lemon lime and bitters before 5pm. I'd usually stick with them as I was the driver. Our group would often expand when Graeme, Alesandro or Repi would turn up and they too would have a LL&B. Now one of these drinks cost 8 riyal which was abotu $NZ3. Fair price for a bar. The week we left the price of a lemon , lime and bitters shot up to 24 riyal. That is the same price as a pint of Heinekin. Graeme who stayed the extra week got stung with the price. Apparently management did a review of bar sales and had this disproportionate increase in LL&Bs over the previous six months so they decided to increase the price to improve their profits. So now with the exchange rate moving to 2 riyals to the dollar compared to 3 when we first arrived, a glass of LL&B now costs close to $12. We wanted to leave our mark on Qatar but this wasn't what we had in mind.