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"When I'm in Syria i am safe!"
... Terug langs Amman naar het noorden dan naar Jerash. Een prachtige Romeinse stad van vroeger met tempels, theaters en een heuse hypodroom, je kon nog de sporen van de paardenkarren van vroeger in de geplaveide wegen zien! Ik moest de hele tijd verwonderd aan de fameuze uitspraak van Obelix denken: Rare jongens, die Romeinen!
(dag 5) Prive taxi geregeld en naar het Kasteel van Ajloun, een antwoord van Sa'la'din op de forten van de kruisvaarders. En ...
Goodbye Beautiful Syria
... people to resolve and move forward. I was simply a guest in a beautiful country.
I
hope with all my heart that there is a positive outcome for my new
friends and the many people that I have met and befriended. And that
Syria can again happily say the one English word that EVERY Syrian
knows:
WELCOME
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The city of the soap
... exposure. Once they have dried sufficiently, they are put into a special subterranean chamber to be aged for six months to a year. The moisture content of the soap is reduced, making the soap hard
and long lasting. And lastly, the color of the outside of the soap turns a pale gold, while the inside remains green.The relative concentration of laurel oil ( typically from 2% - 30%) determines the quality and cost of the soap.
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A bit of man talk when buying a scarf!!
... shook her head..........
Scarf man: "You are man, where is your powerfulness?"
I said that in Australia the woman is the boss, and she said I can't have the scarf at that price.
Scarf man: "In Syria, the man is the boss, women don't tell the man what to do."
(Price has dropped to 200 pounds at this stage.)
I said that Alex has the money, and she won't give me 200 for the scarf.
Scarf man: ...
Sour
From Deir ez Zur I went on to Aleppo. I've been looking forward to Aleppo since I arrived in Damascus. Which is to say that I've been looking forward to the Aleppan cuisine. The Damascenes have no shortage of jokes about the people of Aleppo- taking any opportunity to mock their accent and overall level of intelligence, yet when the topic turns to food the Damascenes will look you straight in the eye and say "the best food in Syria is in Aleppo."
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