Jordan

Put together a duty trip to Amman, some much-needed time off, and a rental car to get an 11-day tour around Jordan. Indeed a beautiful country with sincerely friendly people, Jordan seems to provide relatively good travel conveniences without losing much of its natural character, both of which tend to come about as tourism develops. The country's not that big - I spent perhaps about 16 hours out of my 11 days on the road, but it was enough to cover every major highway in the country!

Met a good bunch of Bedouins (traditionally, and many still nomadic Arabs) who have promised me accomodation, guides around the rocky deserts and plenty of diabetes-causing Bedouin tea on my next visit in exchange for more endless hours of conversation. I've found it's much easier to let the photo and captions do the talking, so I'll keep this short.

Flew over to Dubai for a day under Rose's insistence that I attend the Cathay Christmas party there. It's easier for me to fly there than it was for me to get to work at CX-City every morning. Jimbo's boys and girls really know how to do a party right. I was too busy with my coke+black label (again courtesy of Rose) and chit chat to take any pictures. Speaking of which, I played (real) cricket for the first time over in Sharjah a month back. Will post soon.

Eddie, the "Prince" of Cathay, has talked me into a trip with him to the Levant over Christmas. I'll probably be spending New Year's back in Bahrain, at home, blogging with my cup of Turkish coffee, medium sugar. Not going back to Hong Kong anytime soon. Not that I mind.

Comments

[Peter]

With all that oversweet tea, I bet dentists would have great business restoring carious teeth = )

Favorite pics include the "South Park" Cartman look-alike and the "13 Mosquitoes"...