coming home

It is nice to be home!!!

Flying in from Singapore and Dubai makes it a bit unfair to criticise QAIA but disembarking from an Emirates flight into the rather tatty walkway is a bit of a come down. The first person I see when walking into the airport is a cheerful police officer puffing away on a cigarette (what are rules for but to be broken?). Up to the immigration desk to wait for 10 minutes, which is fine, and the very professional and polite immigration officers, then down to the luggage belt where I told two people off for smoking! The bags arrived promptly but the beltways are really not big enough to cope with the amount of luggage, then through customs and out to the rather messy car park. All in all a relatively good experience but hopefully the airport will be upgraded soon to give a good impression as a gateway to Jordan.

Last night at 9.10 it sounded as if World War III had broken out with an incredibly noisey display of fireworks at the Four Seasons Hotel, I immediately called them and they said they were getting many complaints. I think it is about time the Municipality banned fireworks in populated areas.

Now it is back to struggling with the mad driving and traffic jams. Who am I to complain about anything when all around us innocent people are suffering? But life has to go on. T