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    Hoy me gustaria deciros unas cuantas cosas relacionadas con el atentado que hubo en Marib, a 170km de Sanaa donde han muerto siete españoles y como lo hemos vivido aqui:   Cuando recibi la noticia me quede perpleja, sobretodo por que me sorprendia de los yemenitas, siempre tan acojedores con los extranjeros... Por la noche cuando cogi el taxi para ir a casa, el conductor, como siempre hacen los yemenitas, me pregunta   - Where are you from”? &nbs...

It was my first time aboard alone. I left home with all the hopes, dreams, doubts and worries but once the plane took off I knew that it was the point of no return; only one way out was to finish this trip.Qatar airline took me to Doha in 4 hours from BKK and I arrived at 11 pm. I actually had to spend 11 hours in Doha; fortunately, the airline prepared a room for me. Once I passed the immigration I was one of the three women in the airport. The rest of them which were around 70 something wer...

The Old City  is a 0.9 square kilometre (0.35 square mile) area within the modern city of Jerusalem. Until the 1860s this area constituted the entire city of Jerusalem. The Old City is home to several sites of key religious importance: the Temple Mount and its Western Wall for Jews, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians, and the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque for Muslims.Traditionally, the Old City has been divided into four quarters, although the current designations were...

Tehran is a large and interesting city of contrasts.  It is also the home of my specials friends who I hope to visit again one day soon.

We took a break from class on Saturday so Khalood our teacher took us on sort of a field trip to the King Houssein gardens.  I felt like I was a kid again on a elementary school field trip.  Atop the gardens, perhaps the most fitting memorial to the late King, is the Royal Automobile Museum.  I basically learned the history of modern Jordan through automobiles.  Displayed are a ton of cars owned by the royal family in addition to sweet cars used by them on rare occations/c...

After flying to Syria and spending some time there getting my Iranian visa, checking out different parts of Damascus and smoking lots of hookah, "My that grape is mild!"  I boarded a bus to check out Beirut. The bus I took was not your most modern and after getting shifted around in seats a bit, I finally was shifted to one with very little leg room due to my fellow passenger.  "Thanks for being so considerate buddy....oh well, it isn't that long a trip."  In fact it did ...

7 days was just right to see Dubai and relax at the beautiful beaches! Water is seethrough and very warm. Not much fish, only lots of starfish hidden in the sand. For those who think "shopping", it is not much cheaper than in the US, but might be if you're from Europe, which is pretty expensive these days. Once there, you have to go on a Safari trip, which includes dune bashing, camel ride and belly dancing performance! Wild Wadi water park was fun, but a bit expensive for its size!

Well,  leaving my ship April 2006 was rather easy for me.  I was tired of going out to sea and getting sea sick.  The hours were long,  the job was monotonous and the people were starting to annoy me.  My Command Master Chief came up to me one morning while I was making breakfast for the Chiefs and asked me if I wanted to go to Iraq as a volunteer.  I flipped his eggs and said within about 5 seconds,  "YES, YES, YES,  WHERE DO I SIGN UP?"  Gettin...

While i am working 6 days a week in what is now the rainy season in Northern Iraq. My thoughts are filled with excitement of leaving this place! I get to go back home for good before the start of Summer, but my thoughts are mainly on this western europe trip next month. How exciting for anyone planning a trip like this (if not from europe..) but i got the books 'Europe by Eurail 2008' and the other 2008 book, Blake has it.. Im excited but its hard to express it, i work under stressful enviro...

The next day was a travel day again, and we headed back to Basta after finding out that the Egyptian Embassy in Aqaba will not issue visas on Saturday (but they will on Sunday?).   Now... at this point we weren't even sure we'd go to the mainland of Egypt, but we wanted the option to be open in case we did.   So, another long bus ride for us (by this point I must have gotten used to the smells and such of Jordanian busses because I literally wrote nothing about the journey!) ....

I was excited to have some time to explore the creative side of Israel. The country is not often known for its art and artists, but the arts are definitely not in short supply. There are towns dedicated to the arts, museums and galleries focused on emerging local artists and public art everywhere. I spent an entire day wandering alone through the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. I only left so I could catch the last bus out of the city to a friend's house, otherwise I would have stayed until closing (...

During Christmas and NYE I spend my time in Jordan. It was my first time there and I loved it and didn't want to leave. I took about 500 pictures, but I wont show them all haha. I'll wright my journal later, first it's time to show some pictures!!

few pictures of qatar !! enjoy

I had wanted to visit Lebanon as far back as I could remember.   I recall the images of destruction on television from the '70s and '80s and knew that Lebanon was more than that. I acquired a pass, through work, to anywhere in the Gulf Air network and decided to go to Beirut. My trip started out in Reno, Nevada, where I caught a Southwest 737 to San Diego, with a stop in Las Vegas.  I had worked earlier that day, doing a Flight Attendant check ride from Re...

I came across this hilarious cartoon ... here are the words but a couple of them are beyond me.  Heaven is: A Syrian wife Lebanese food Emirati citizenship Jordanian security Egyptian tourism A Palestinian neighbour Saudi taxes Qatari salary Hell is: An Egyptian wife Emirati food Lebanese citizenship Palestinian security Qatari tourism A Saudi neighbour Jordanian taxes Syrian salary