Club Inn Eilat

... van het dorp weer met de Jeep kwam oppikken..

We hebben ons wel bij Mo beklaagd, en kregen 30 eu van de prijs af, maar we waren toch een beetje teleurgesteld met het einde.. Ook leuk dat meneer dan op een bank ligt te slapen, en dat ik al een halve minuut met geld boven zn hoofd sta te bungelen, en dat hij dan vind dat IK onbeschoft ben, als ik het geld naast hem neergooi..

Ik ben wel weer een beetje klaar met Bedouinen.. Op naar de normale Arabieren in Aqaba...

... out my fellow Torontonian and pretend he was with me when we passed through Israel. Not that I think he would have had a problem but I guess it's just quicker. We get to the Israeli immigration and it makes me happy just to say "Shalom, Boker Tov" Hello, good morning. They greet me like an old friend and welcome me home. I've heard many stories about the tough time people have at the Israeli immigration and I've seen it a few times when I arrive. Of course I am treated like a superstar ...

... Meanwhile, his son made tea by finding enough wood to start a fire, boiling a kettle full of water that materialized somehow, and serving us.
So the texting thing: as we were heading back, literally beyond sight of anything like a road or a telephone wire, I got a mystery text from a number I didn't recognize: Was up?
The text and the mystery number were one thing, but the fact that I had gotten a text message right then was unbelievable. There are ...

... His English was next to nothing but he gave us a ride all the way to the city center. Unfortunately we ended up at the wrong bus station and our bus to Amman was a five hour smokehouse. Our hotel in Amman this time is the Palace Hotel, where we would have stayed had it not been full (for a good reason) the first time that we arrived in Amman. We had a fantastic meal at the nearby Cairo Restaurant, excellent shish kebab (lamb) for Andrew and chicken and ...

... After catching a few rays we had a bit of lunch then it was time for a few drinkies. Not sure if it was a combination of the sun, tiredness and softness but there were some very sick people that night. Goose decided to finally teach the crew a bit of Joker Reinsert however it resulted in him crawling under one of the other tour companies truck and having a bit of a spew..... the plan backfired!!!.

... t have wanted to wobble all day, it was a truly magnificent experience, riding through such an awe-inspiring, echoing, emptiness on so bizarre but perfectly suited an animal - one couldn't help but feel cool. The eerie, other-worldliness of it made me wonder, at times, if we weren't being watched by ewoks from the nearby rock formations. Perhaps the sight of Anna on such a small camel had them laughing too hard to launch an attack! We left by ...

... In a symmetrical grid was row upon row of calves kept in cages barely wide enough for them to turn round in. They were up to around two months of age and had lived their whole lives in this isolation. As I approached the calf nearest to me started violently pushing her head through the bars in a frenzied to and fro motion! The calf sucked on my hand as if it were a teat - as they are separated from their Mothers at birth these calves knew ...

... minutes of being in the room, we hear screaming and loud shouting outside by the pool. This is with the sliding doors closed! We go outside on our pool deck and see a number of kids playing in the lagoon, one kid in particular is screaming for his mom and the mother is oblivious. We go back into the room and hope for the best. Maybe things will quiet down. Six packed days have caught up with us and we're tired. We unpack the luggage and turn on our ...

... part of what makes me who I am, and are really the only bridge I have between total withdrawal and euphoric enthusiasm. When people do not understand my words, I become withdrawn, and it is for this reason that I was extremely happy to see my friends when they arrived, after a week of Israelis, who by turns must have thought that I was either extremely shy or mildly retarted.. After Eilat, Alex and I decided to go to Jordan.

... Eilat (Israel) for dinner. Mum and I were on a post hike/beautiful scenery high despite semi-crippled legs (stupid steps of redemption) and were really excited about going back to Israel. We laughed and limped all the way to the bus stop and managed to buy tickets to Nuweiba. This was the start of the final slap in the face that made us really happy to leave Egypt. The ticket seller said he did not have any change and that he would give it to us after other people bought their tickets. Mum ...