Aqaba – The blue Red Sea
16.12.2003 | Aqaba, Jordan
I was planning to stay in Petra with Barbara and Klaus yesterday, but as we arrived there after a rainy night and a very foggy morning (I couldn't drive faster than 70kph!) around noon, the weather there was also awful. So we continued on to Aqaba, but only after we all together repaired a tyre of Oliver's and Sandra's Toyota, they were namely in Petra as well. We were being extremely wise, but nobody has tried it before. We were reading German, English and Spanish instructions, watched the figures, being very smart, full of advices, everybody tried a bit, but surprisingly, the tyre is fixed and the air isn't escaping any more. Alhamdulillah!
Who's travelling around
15.12.2003 | Jordan
On my journey I've come across with many people, mostly locals, but also with some from ex-Yugoslavia, like Nina and Marija from Belgrade who are studying Arabic in Dimashq, Nidal from Zagreb that lives and works in Libanese Sidon, as well as a McDonald's manager in a small Lebanese town near Syrian border (OK, I had to spend the last Lebanese lira) who asks me upon my arrival: "Are you from Ljubljana?" and that in fluent Croatian! He was married in Bosnia, but those times are a matter of the past.
Live report tonight
14.12.2003 | Jordan
Tonight (the night of 14. to 15.dec.2003) at 2:15 AM Tilen will report live on the program of Radio Slovenija. (by Rok)
Blue Dead Sea, Jordan
13.12.2003 | The Dead Sea, Jordan
After I left Syria yesterday I had to teach a police officer English. I had to show him all the electronic devices and clearly name each one in English: "Camera." "Mobile phone." "Portable computer." Then he let me pass to the actual border crossing.
Dimashq – hunting the flying carpet
11.12.2003 | Damascus, Syria
have to tell you something – I've been looking for a flying carpet since a few years ago. And I embarked on this enterprise in a sincere hope to find one on the journey. No luck until now in spite that I was seriously counting on Dimashq. I haven't lost my hope yet and I'm counting on success in Cairo.