Jordan: Madaba and Karak Castle
We took a 1 hour flight from Beirut back to Amman and then a taxi for the 25 minute journey for our overnight in Madaba. Madaba is much a smaller…
Beirut, Lebanon November 3
It was our first time flying Royal Jordanian, and it was fine. Customer service was a tad brusque but that was just a foretaste of Middle Eastern service styles. We…
Yerevan Nov 2017
Our final capital city in the Caucusus was Yerevan, Armenia. It also had it’s own unique feel, not the same as the other two cities we had been in. While…
Tbilisi to Yerevan
According to the map the road distance from Tbilisi to Yerevan is 301km and 5:45 driving time. And that proved pretty accurate, as we left the city at 9:00am and…
A bit more Tbilisi
We ate very well over the time we were in the city and prices were VERY cheap, maybe $12 for two of us for a simple dinner with a house…
Georgia, the Country, not the State
For our time in Tbilisi we had rented an Airbnb apartment, in a residential street, near the centre of the city. We took the option of paying the owner to…