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I met Mike at Jordan International Airport on the evening of the 6 March. He looked like he had been dragged through a bush backwards – Saudi does that to you apparently I delayed the journey by one day as I left the laptop behind….. but I knew that Marco and Delphine (Pippa’s new family) [...]…
Wadi Rum is a wildlife reserve 2 hours south of Amman. It provides fantastic photo opportunities due to the amazing colour contrasts between the sand and the hills. Unfortunately we weren’t there at sunset or sunrise which would have allowed for even better photographs, these where however shot during the harshest midday hours. Hope you [...]…
Saudi Arabia Saudi, Saudi, Saudi………………. I won’t forget a quote from the Saudi King in 1930 – ”My Kingdom will survive only insofar as it remains a country difficult to access, where the foreigner will have no other aim, with his task fulfilled, but to get out.” — King Abdul Aziz bin Saud, c. 1930 Need we say more!!!…
Looking about me as I rode into Amman, Jordan’s capital, I realised the reason why I had been stared at constantly for the past 150 kilometre stretch since the border. It suddenly dawned on me as I navigated my way to a hotel that I rode alone amongst the hundreds of cars about me. I almost missed the usually annoying…