May 2014 - Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank God for Google Maps and roaming data because if it weren't for you today I may have missed my first flight of four on my way back home. We were on our way out of Jerusalem when I realised we had taken a wrong »
May 2014 - Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the third day the gates flung opened and we were allowed slightly closer to the last monumentally significant part of the Old City: Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock. History makes every step you make on the Temple Mount ring a small »
May 2014 - Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because one needs to look their best whilst serving their country in khakis... This includes full makeup, red lipstick, a designer handbag and finally the most important accessory of all, an automatic machine gun. This was the site that greeted us at the Western Wall »
May 2014 - Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The old city of Jerusalem, where Judaism, Christianity and Muslims converge in a melting pot of history and religion. Where a hand on the Western Wall absorbs the collective prayers of the past and present, where one can fall to their knees at the site »
May 2014 - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pompeii has some serious competition for best preserved Roman ruins and it's name is Jerash, about a 40 minute drive north of Amman. Look at all the columns my friends! Our tour guide for the morning has left an impression on me: He used "my »
May 2014 - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Random Donkey Attacks On the drive out of Petra I mentioned how cool it was to see random donkeys on the side of the street. Next corner three donkeys are coming towards the car, Al has to slow to a dead stop because one decided »
May 2014 - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If this trip was all about one single day then that day was today. How long have my parents and I been dying to visit the anicent city of Petra? How long have I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade oogling the Treasury building »
May 2014 - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If Istanbul was a city ruled by cats then the area around Wadi Rum was ruled by camels. They could be found strolling through the watermelon fields or on the sides of the road, their heads in rubbish bins as they noshed away on garbage »
May 2014 - Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standing on the beach front outside the Kempinski Hotel in Aqaba, Jordan you can see two other countries with a third just around the other side of a hill. The city of Elibat, Israel is as close as this... A few clicks beyond Eilat is »
May 2014 - Turkey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To all my FS friends this one is for you. Does one go for nights in Four Seasons Sultanahmet or Four Seasons Bosphorus? The answer is it depends on what you are planning on doing in Istanbul. If you want to see all the major »
May 2014 - Turkey & Jordan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rain. The most unperdictable element in any holiday, that can turn even the best laid plans inside out, or in the case of our last day in Istanbul, flip all our plans around. When I imagined cruising on the Bosphorus I did not envisage »
