“Don’t book anything your mum won’t like,” was my dad’s only instruction when telling me to arrange some things we should do in Dubai. Fast forward three months and we’re doing dune bashing in Dubai as a family and my mother is standing outside the 4×4 puking her guts up in the middle of the…
Let me tell you about my time being Indiana Jones at Petra and why it’s one ANCIENT WONDER that’s not an underwhelming disappointment. It’s actually bloody spectacular and impressive and all manner of other words that middle-schoolers struggle to spell. Petra, if you didn’t know, is in Jordan, which borders Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and…
While staying in a hostel in Amman, Jordan, I ended up doing a day trip to the Dead Sea with the hostel owner and his family. I say day trip, but Khaled assured me it’d be best if we left about three in the afternoon. “Too hot, too hot,” he told me repeatedly. “During morning…
We were couchsurfing in Petra, Jordan, like every other place on the trip. The difference in Petra was that we were couchsurfing with a Bedouin guy. A terrifying Bedouin. Ghassab was tall, muscled, had dreadlocks, and was really serious all of the time. He didn’t laugh or smile once, no matter what you said, and…
It seems Israel and Palestine are once again busy trading rockets and getting people killed on both sides like a playground fight that got way out of hand. In the latest conflict, the death toll stands (as of writing) at 3 Israelis and 86 Palestinians which, to me, suggests that if you are going to…
Tiberias is one of Israel’s most popular tourist destinations. One of the most popular activities for tourists is cycling the Sea of Galilee. The 55km circumference is a challenge for any amateur rider, particularly in the heat of summer. Around the Sea of Galilee, you can find the place where Jesus walked on water, the…
“You’re a hard guy to hate,” my friend said to me an hour into our two day road trip in Israel’s Golan Heights. As far as compliments go, it wasn’t great (although not as bad as “you look good with hair” which I received recently). But I knew what he meant, and I was thankful….