Peter, get a life.

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Catch a Fire is one of the better movies I’ve been able to watch lately and it’s one of those films that gets me thinking. It’s based on a true story set in the apartheid-era of South Africa and just watching it makes it hard to believe that this era was still around when I […]

There are many reasons why I love the Sufara bakery. Coming to Amman for the first time as a child I remember the bakery as the only ‘real’ place in Swefieh. Next to it was the Chicken Tika restaraunt and a little fish market and that whole street was pretty much all there was to […]

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The ongoing saga of our recent car accident continues in this part and as previously stated you’ll need to read parts one and two to fully comprehend it.
So this scene takes place two days after the accident. The previous day we had barely managed escaping prison and convincing the Egyptian worker to come with us […]

Jordan is severely restricting the number of refugees it is letting in.
Partly for security reasons and partly because the country is already dealing with nearly one million Iraqi refugees.
UN refugee body appealed for $60m in emergency aid for those fleeing the violence in Iraq - the largest long-term displacement of people since the uprooting […]

Out of fruity curiosity why do the bloggers who are not on Toot bitch non-stop about not being on Toot? And why do non-Toot bloggers become anti-Toot bloggers? And why do anti-Toot bloggers pretend like they don’t care they’re non-Toot bloggers yet they seem to talk so much about being non-Toot bloggers, consume so much […]

To comprehend the happenings of this post you have to have read it’s prologue. Its predecessor was merely an outlet for my frustrations, this part is similar but has the added bonus of being an educational tool to any Jordanian driver out there who might, God forbid, go through something like this, which has a […]