Damascus

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We drove north through Amman and I was fast asleep when we crossed the border into Syria, although I managed to wake up and wave when my name was called 😊 We camped just outside Damascus for three nights next to a buildıng site which bizarrely and annoyingly came to life in the middle of the night along with a pack of barking dogs! We only saw the old city which has Muslim, Jewish, and Christian quarters like Jerusalem. Straight Street, mentioned in the New Testament, is still there. We wandered round the streets and stalls all day and then went to hear a storyteller ın a coffee house. Everything was in Arabic and we didn't have a clue what was going on - although all of his stories involved him waving a stick in the air and then hitting a table with it at the end!

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