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Paris:- Sunday, 24. October 1999:- There's nothing like starting a vacation at 05:00 - 5 am! - to get to the airport for your 10 o'clock flight and then to be asked if you'd like to volunteer for the afternoon flight on another carrier because Air France has overbooked!

Declines Beard Trim In Jordon

LindaThalm
2005-12-02 17:14:18

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Paris:- Sunday, 24. October 1999:- There's nothing like starting a vacation at 05:00 - 5 am! - to get to the airport for your 10 o'clock flight and then to be asked if you'd like to volunteer for the afternoon flight on another carrier because Air France has overbooked!

Even the 500 Francs offered to ease the pain wasn't acceptable. We opted to be on the waiting list and miraculously left on our originally-scheduled flight to Tel Aviv.

Israel has a service taxi system called 'sheruts' - collective taxis - which we used to get to Jerusalem for $10. We didn't bring any dollars, but prices are routinely quoted in them and in NIS - or new Israeli Shekels.

Before night fell we headed for the Old City and meandered through the Armenian, Christian, Jewish and Muslim quarters as shopkeepers packed up for the day. We barely consulted the map as every narrow street was intriguing.

From the Damascus Gate we skirted the walls and returned to the Jaffa gate entrance to eat in the Armenian Tavern, 79 Armenianphoto: mid east internet cafe in In wadi musa Patriarchate Road. We spent one short night at the Mount Zion Hotel in a lovely room with a view on the Old City.
The Middle-East Internet Cafe somewhere in Jordan
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At 9:30 sharp, Charlie, a taxi driver, took us to the Jordanian border. With what we thought was plenty of time to get to Amman - only 80 kilometres due East of Jerusalem - we asked Charlie to detour through Jerico. We didn't want to miss the ruins of the walls of the oldest city in the world. We did, however, give the casino a miss.

Misinformed by the consulate in Paris, we were unable to cross the Allenby-King Hussein Bridge without a visa. We had to take another taxi north - for an hour! - where we crossed without a hitch at the Sheikh Hussein Bridge and got our visa for Jordan on the spot. Moral: never leave ...