Ich bin dann mal weg - off we go - doei doei

I'm sitting in Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport with a 5 hour stopover (everyone who ever had a stopover at this monster of an airport knows that it's better to have a too long stopover than a too short stopover here) and thought: why not use the time to write a blog? I've never written a blog for just a weekend trip. But as I enjoyed writing my blog for Jordan quite a bit and make use of the blogs now as well in my photo books, I thought why not? So here we go! For this Easter two friends had asked me if I want to go on a long weekend trip. Johanna, my friend from studying in Karlsruhe and Olga, my friend from Rotterdam. So we decided to do a girl's trip and after some discussion the choice was made: we will go to Slovenia. I heard a lot of great things about the beautiful nature and was really excited. All three of us made our way to Ljubljana (why do I always feel drunk when I say that?) on Thursday night. Olga and I arrived around the same time at the airport and J...

Here I am on my last day in Jordan, at the same Art Café where I wrote the first blog :-) Seems to be my creative place. And I can’t believe it’s already my last day in Jordan! Time flew! So what have I done since I arrived back in Amman?  Well the first day back I decided to do a day trip west: to the city of Madaba, the Dead Sea and Mount Nebo. Most people of the group were a bit lazy or preferred to stay in the city, so it was only Taylor and me who ventured west. First stop was the city of Madaba, which is known for some great archeological sites and especially for the mosaics that can be found there. We went first to the most famous one: a map of Jordan and the surrounding area on an old Orthodox Church floor. It was impressive, although the “translation map” was really needed to understand it. We were super lucky as we were nearly alone in the church. When we left, there were two big tour busses arriving, which just made the little church crazy crowded. We then went on for...