No, not for the Rioja and the tapas, not officially, anyway. That was just a perk. Qalinaw is in Badghis province. Badghis, I am told, is a Farsi-derived word that means "land where the winds arise" or "birthplace of the winds" or something like that. So it's got all these little hills, weirdly eroded by the winds, that look like the burial mounds out of The Hobbit, just a bit higher. Anyway, once the mists settle in, the city is completely blanketed in fog, and since there is no functioning radar, the planes have to land by visual, and if they can't see through the cloud cover, they don't risk it. Later I will post photos of the hills when the skies were clearer.
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