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>He met with heads of state. He visited the Acropolis in Athens and the transit system in Doha, Qatar. And after catching a game at the World Cup, Mayor Eric Adams of New York sampled the local nightlife. For Mr. Adams, his first extended foreign trip as mayor seemed as much of a vacation as an official trip for city business — and, to his credit, he had made no pretense about that. The day before his departure, Mr. Adams told reporters that he would pay for his lodging in Qatar to lessen accusations of wasting taxpayer money. “It’s on my dime,” the mayor said. “When I do my dime, I can do my time and I don’t want to hear anyone whine.” The nature of the hastily arranged trip — a four-day journey to Greece and Qatar — made it difficult to track much of the mayor’s overseas adventure. His official press schedule, especially while he was in Qatar, made it all but impossible. None of his events there were open to the press, and his schedule did not list the precise location of where he would be or whom he would be meeting with.