The Young Jeremiah Chronicles - Istanbul to Cairo Part 4
On Eoin and I head through the Middle East of 9 years ago. This blog entry includes the last of our Syrian stories and the entirety of the correspondence detailing our travails in Jordan. As with the rest of these middle Eastern posts, this contains the emails sent out to my large list of increasingly weary contacts. Thankfully, at this stage, my writing style has improved somewhat. Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:28:58 +0000 Subject: Not so much a pillar of wisdom Hey all Was feeling pretty sick yesterday so the events will be clouded by the runs. ( ugh) Anyway, we're in Petra now, in Jordan, another new country. When I last left ye I was having a fantastic time in Damascus I'll try to catch ye up with the present. We learned the evening before setting of for the Jordanian border that Bosra, a small Syrian backwater with the best preserved amphitheatre in the middle east, which, according to the lonely planet guide it also boa...