It was Saturday morning 8am when I left the hostel and people were still coming out of clubs playing loud music. Tel Aviv really has energy and you can feel it. However to some extent also this city has to respect the Shabat (weekend of Jews) and so there were no Busses. Sherut, shared taxis (99% are Ford Transits) is the only way... Read More »

I started my last day in Jordan with snorkelling in the red sea and actually did see fishes like the “Nemo” one. Never done that before, it gives you a taste if what diving could be like. It must have been the day when a German tourist got eaten by a shark further down in Egypt. It made the news everywhere. At breakfast I met... Read More »

An unpleasant but often to be taken procedure during my trip will be saying good bye and moving on. Sometimes it will be rather easy and there is the hard once. Leaving Damascus, Syria and James behind certainly belong to the latter. Syria is such a welcoming and easy to travel country, still so different and eyes opening. With James... Read More »

Olaf and Katarina, the German couple, James and I shared a taxi to downtown Damascus and they showed us their hotel. As they had no double room and charged too much for the dorm James and I went about 10m further and got a double in “Al-Haramain” Hotel, a very old building with fantastic interiors and crocked stairs. In off season... Read More »

I did actually not make it out of Aleppo that on Monday morning. Instead I slept long, surfed the net and by the time I would have been ready to leave, 2pm, there were only 2 daylight hours left. Sunset is around 4pm and so I had a perfect excuse to stay another day in lively Aleppo. Breakfast was, as the 3 days before, a mixed orange... Read More »