Amman in the Archives
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One of my favourite things to do is look at newspaper archives online for coverage of cities. It’s always interesting to see the evergreen stories (or what I'd like to call 'what not to pitch'), the facts that are always mentioned, almost in a boilerplate fashion, but also the tone that ranges from the Orientalist to a genuine sense of discovery.
Here’s Amman, Jordan in the Google newspaper archives
This reads like the opening scene of a...
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no of typos; my excuse is a lame right hand at the moment !
Anglicans wanted me to attend a youth congress; the next morning,
a Sri Lankan maid took a photo of me on the trike which she forwarded to a freid of hers working for a cheesemaker near Irbid
who recognised me two days later when I got there.
I also managed to obtain a visa outhorisation for Sri Lanka
from travel agency no sixteen in Amman, minutes before they were closing shop.
All in all, good memories of Amman and of Jordan in general, apart from the weather, cold, wet miserable some of the time !
Axel, author of Breakfast at Gunpoint ( pen name Arsalan )