Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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Just a reminder, if you click on the photo it makes it full screen. Also if you want to see even more photo's of us in Jordan over the last few weeks & follow our fellow travels The Jelinski's there web address is www.5dm.fr their photo's are fantastic as is their website so check it out guys.
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Having been met as promised by one of Yousef's workers outside of The Shneller school promptly at 9am we then followed him & his little red motorbike for the next 30 minutes with confidence, it then became apparent when he started stopping at every person he went past & they started pointing in different directions that he couldn't actually find where exactly the container was. Several phone calls later & another 30 minutes we arrived next to our container.
The truck/car/van whatever you'd like to call it went into the container no problem, there was a moment of tension whether it would fit height wise but Gary just had to take off one of the bike's from the roof & put it inside the car. All very simple & very efficient, I think the only other moment of tension was when the time came for the forklift truck to raise the container 2 meters off the ground in order for it to be put on the lorry, it certainly had it's work cut out for it with black smoke bellowing out the back & the wheels lifting off the floor the weight of our car was just about it's limit, it was quite hard watching your home & transport being lifted off the ground by a very unstable forklift.
Waving goodbye to our car/home felt very odd, it will be a real relief when we see it again in 20 days in India, fingers crossed.
So we are now in a cheap hotel until 9Th July when we have flights booked for India.
Amman doesn't have too much to offer as far as sightseeing goes but plenty of shopping & great restaurants, I am not quite sure how we are going to entertain ourselves for the next 9 days but maybe it will bring some surprise maybe not.
I am definitely going to take advantage of the wifi & upload as many photo's and video footage as possible to the blog so keep looking & again we love your comments so keep them coming.
The truck/car/van whatever you'd like to call it went into the container no problem, there was a moment of tension whether it would fit height wise but Gary just had to take off one of the bike's from the roof & put it inside the car. All very simple & very efficient, I think the only other moment of tension was when the time came for the forklift truck to raise the container 2 meters off the ground in order for it to be put on the lorry, it certainly had it's work cut out for it with black smoke bellowing out the back & the wheels lifting off the floor the weight of our car was just about it's limit, it was quite hard watching your home & transport being lifted off the ground by a very unstable forklift.
Waving goodbye to our car/home felt very odd, it will be a real relief when we see it again in 20 days in India, fingers crossed.
So we are now in a cheap hotel until 9Th July when we have flights booked for India.
Amman doesn't have too much to offer as far as sightseeing goes but plenty of shopping & great restaurants, I am not quite sure how we are going to entertain ourselves for the next 9 days but maybe it will bring some surprise maybe not.
I am definitely going to take advantage of the wifi & upload as many photo's and video footage as possible to the blog so keep looking & again we love your comments so keep them coming.
Photo - Dead Sea, Jordan
Gary's 40Th, We spent the evening at the panoramic restaurant at the dead sea with our French friends The Jelinski's.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Photo - Wadi Rum, Jordan.
Our second night camping in Wadi Rum, an amazing sunset & shooting stars to follow.
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