Blogs from Middle East - page 1077

Considering the capital cities that surround it - Jerusalem to the west, Damascus to the north, Beirut and Cairo just a short flight away - it’s hard to get all fired up about Amman. This town is like the Nick Nolte of the Middle East: impossible to love or hate, largely forgettable, but able to make a good showing now and then. You don’t easily take to the dusty downtown, to the rows of apartment blocks that rise across its endless hills (as many as nineteen, according to some estimates). But you can carve out a comfortable little niche haggling for fruit and puffing nargileh - or, as I’ve found, shopping for bootleg DVDs in the shops on Al-Amir Mohamed Street, where 300, Shooter, or the new season of 24 can be had for all ... read more

March 22 Jonathan, Jeff’s best friend who has lives in Dubai for just over a year now, and who is a Manager at the Emirates Towers called around 8am, and came up to the room. Jonathan is the Training Manager at this hotel. Jonathan has just come back from Egypt escorting a tour of Australians on his vacation to help out another old friend of Jeff’s who is a Travel agent and Tour escort. He had been awake since 4am as the group had an early transfer to the airport. It was great to see him, and we went down to breakfast and caught up what we had all done since we last saw talked. The breakfast buffet was huge, and included camel products such as milk and cheese, as well as local dates. Outside ... read more

url='/Videos/2445.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2445.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'prueba First of all I would like to explain you where is this city called Kutahya where I spent a really good Sunday (exact date March 18th 2007). This city is located approximately 70 kilometers to the south of Eskisehir and it takes about one hour to be there. I went with other trainees: Hamdi from Tunisia, Asami from Japan, Nena from Macedonia, Jelena from Serbia and Agata from Poland and of course some AIESECers from Eskisehir. Sadly Adina, Alina and Micky from Romania could not go to this awesome trip because they had to work in their school. (Although you don't believe in Turkey and other muslim countries is mandatory to work on Sundays) Tanya from Russia was in Bursa and Yahia with Menna from Egypt were in Istanbul. The trip started at ... read more

Lørdag 17. mars Etter fridagen i Gümüshaciköy hadde vi sett nok av byen, og pakket tohjulingene og fortsatte mot fjellovergangen på 960 m. Været var lettere, og vi kom oss greit over toppen og gjennom et ganske flott, forrevent fjellandskap før veien slapp seg ned til Osmançık, en by på ca 25 000 innbyggere. Stedet virket mye mer aktivt enn forrige by, med et livlig basarområde. Vi fikk med oss noen butterdeigsboller fra en baker og tok lunsjpause i en park vest for sentrum. Litt lenger vest var vi innom en av veikroene som bussen vår hadde stoppet ved 11 dager før. Deja vu, igjen... Videre de neste fire milene holdt vi også et ganske godt driv, men tempoet sank og bananpausene ble hyppigere etterhvert som kilokaloriene rant ut. Vi valgte likevel å fortsette til ... read more

synagogue atthe Great Synagogue and a day of leisure!... read more