Hello my fellow travellers! Today, after a 7½ hour flight we finally arrived in Santa Maria, a small, charming town on the south tip of the island of Sal in beautiful Cape Verde. It is my pleasure to introduce a new travel partner to this blog as this time I have my now ex-girlfriend Elisabeth (henceforth called Lisa) with me for the trip. We actually booked this trip while we were still a couple and I can honestly say that I have no idea what to expect of this trip at this point since we haven't really spoken that much since the break-up. We're not on bad terms or anything, I guess it's just a natural effect of what's happened. I don't expect us to get the relationship back on track with this trip, I am ... read more

Hello again my fellow travellers! Where do I begin when all has been amazing? Probably at the beginning I suppose. Today we made our way to Petra and just as with Wadi Rum we decided to go by taxi so we asked a driver outside how much he wanted to take us there and back again and to wait for us for six hours. He said 80JD for both so 40JD each which we thought was a good price. The driver was a really nice guy who made an otherwise quite dreary ride highly enjoyable with good conversation and challenging riddles. If we had gotten four out of five correct the ride would have been free, but alas, our meagre minds only managed to solve two! He dropped us off and we entered into Petra, the ... read more

Greetings all happy travellers! This day started off kind off shaky as our private driver was delayed due to blocked roads. They are, for natural reasons, not very used to snow here and it has created quite some difficulties for their infrastructure to the point where their military is involved now. This of course meant that we had to strike the desert castles from our itinerary which is a shame. With our driver delayed we decided to postpone our trip to Gerasa for a few hours and we started with the historical monuments in Amman instead. First we went to the theatres but they were still closed so we decided to take our chances and went to the citadel instead and luckily it was open! And I do mean luckily because it's a bit of a ... read more

Hello my fellow travellers! Today's great desert adventure is done and let me tell you, it was good! The cold front still holds its icy grip here though so I can promise you that it was very cold riding on top of a jeep, even when driving through the canyons at a leisure pace! Anyway, we started this day by trying out the breakfast buffet at the hotel, it didn't really float mine nor Marcus boat so to say but did it's job anyway. Then we went to the bus station to catch the bus to Wadi Rum. We had checked the day before and we also confirmed at the station house that the bus would go. When we got there a cab driver told us it wasn't coming though since it was a holiday and ... read more

Hello my fellow happy travellers! Our first day in Aqaba is at an end. It's mostly been travelling today as we arrived at our hotel at around 17.00. We started early at 05.30 today and the trip has gone well except for a tedious controller at the airport in Aqaba who seemed adamant at holding up the line for as long as possible. Oh well, once we got through the control we took the bus into Aqaba where they dropped us at our hotel, Mina. The second we got off the bus we were hailed by taxi-driver with an attitude who wanted to drive us to the various sights around Jordan. We declined as politely as we could since, at the moment, we mostly just wanted to get settled in and take a quick look around ... read more