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Originally posted by Sobriquet:
Well I'm sure you and I have many things in common with regards to what a city has to offer.

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That was wonderful to read...it took me back 10 years!!!

My experience of Jordan was very different from yours, as I was there to study at the University of Jordan and stayed in the women's hostel...what an experience! We were locked in from 7.00 pm (in the winter, 8.00 pm in the summer) to 7.00 am, and the mushrifah's would come round to do a roll call make sure that we were all in our rooms. And woe betide anyone one who was late back! Alhamdu lillah, I was rescued from there after a while, but learned many valuable experiences from it.

The water situation in the hostel was so dire that many of the girls only showered once a week...and that would also be the day that the poor students washed all their clothes and put on their second set for the following week. Many mornings we would wake up to find no water at all as we had finished our ration in the roof tanks.

When I finally escaped from the hostel, I remember that the family I stayed with would do all their weekly washing and wash the house down while the tanks were being filled with water. That meant that all the water they used that night would be replaced as they were using it, and so they were conserving their ration for the rest of the week.

I smiled at your mention of Abdali bus station and the polite taxis. Even the microbuses were a pleasure to ride in Jordan. If I got on one by myself, the guy collecting the money would make sure that the men moved around so I could either sit on a single seat by myself or on a double seat by myself or next to a woman!

My favourite area of Amman was downtown, I used to love wondering round there and poking in the little shops and souqs, and smelling the spices. And grabbing a Jordanian shawarma...they were superb, much better, sadly, than the Egyptian ones - in fact personally I prefer the Shammy food...the mansaf, makluba, musakhan...my mouth is watering at the memory!

Thanks for reminding me of all those things...and more

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My pleasure newcomer

See we do have a lot in common because I love downtown Amman too!

I love Hashim restaurant's Hummus and I certainly love Al-Quds restaurant's mansaf

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Originally posted by Sobriquet:

See we do have a lot in common because I love downtown Amman too!

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Well, certainly large areas of overlap...but isn't that why we are here on ES anyway

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