-
Day 2 Cabo de Gata – chilling
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I love shutters. Waking up and finding out it’s 9am and you’ve slept like a log all night is heaven. In an ideal world, I’d live in a beautiful Italian villa with huge floor to ceiling windows surrounded by massive wooden shutters. Eating breakfast in…
-
Spanish mini adventure- Cabo de Gata
So far 2024 has seen us visit zero countries. You read right, zero. Zilch. Nada. Well maybe one if you count Wales. Which I don’t. How can this have possibly occurred you ask? Has there been another lockdown? Has another virus been released upon the world? Have the middle aged flash packers finally hung up…
-
Thoughts on Jordan
Here are a few observations and musings about our time in Jordan: 1.) It’s a man’s world. I feel as though Jordan must be a country with very few women. Where are they? I saw a few in a shisha bar and one served me in an art gallery, but otherwise they’re conspicuous by their…
-
Amman – Day 2
We were treated to double call of prayer this morning. I don’t know why the Imam did it, perhaps not enough people responded the first time. I guess church bells are the British equivalent but at least that’s limited to Sundays and weddings. I noticed at breakfast that the second hand mansaf eater is staying…
-
Aqaba/Amman
A couple of days r&r at the beach has been just the ticket and we are recharged and ready for our last destination on the itinerary- Amman. Slightly concerning are the pro-Palestine protests like those held yesterday throughout Jordan’s major cities. We initially had plans last night to go to a restaurant in Aqaba city…
-
Wadi Rum/Aqaba
It was a very early start this morning but what else would you expect when it’s time to ride a camel and see the sun rise? I was both pleased and relieved to be given a relatively small camel to ride. Riding a camel (or rather sitting on one) is the easy bit, getting on…
-
Wadi Rum
Goodbye For Seasons Petra. I doubt you are aware of the irony of your chosen name but it pretty much sums you up. You’re lovely people but you need to understand there’s a big difference between wanting to be something and putting the effort in to achieve it. Anyway, off to Wadi Rum we go.…
-
Petra day 2
Back to Petra today to mop up the bits we didn’t see yesterday. We made our way to the tombs some of which were fabulous inside with many different colours of rock layered through the strata. Next, the hike up to the top of the High Place of Sacrifice. It was much hotter than yesterday…
-
Petra
We’re very confused by the messages we are getting at our hotel. On one hand, we are told we can have whatever we want, wherever we want, but on the other hand, we can’t. S and I had been looking forward to something other than an Arabic breakfast, thinking we could order the American breakfast…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
Middle-aged flash packers 