Home Sweet Home

I forgot to ask my family to bring a Tim Horton’s coffee with them when they come to pick me up from the airport, but it doesn’t matter. Twenty-one hours after I woke up in Amman, I am back in Canada!

Purgatory

This theological concept arose in the mediaeval wester‎n church, being neither heaven nor hell, but a place where the souls of the deceased stay until they have suffered in recompense for their sins, at which point they are released to their heavenly reward. (I’ve […]

Long Day Ahead…

I don’t even want to think about the day ahead of me, but I now have my boarding pass and have cleared all the security checks at the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. Now it’s a matter of sitting and waiting and sitting […]

Fauzi Azar Lobby

This hostel is set up in an Ottoman-style mansion with 15 rooms. The view is incredible, the courtyard has a fountain / koi pond, and it’s only 90 shekels per night with breakfast. The really cool thing is, anyone with a Lebanese or Syrian […]