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On two weeks notice we decided to visit Jordan for a week of holiday. We figured joining an organized group might keep our schedule efficient with a minimum amount of planning effort required on our side.

Jordan turned out to be a great country; very dry with only a green Jordan Valley, liberate Islamic (all women wear at least scarfs though) and full of ancient, biblical or just beautiful sites…

We hiked a bit around at Wadi Mujib…

…around Petra…

…and I could spend weeks dwelling around in the desert of Wadi Rum…

I don’t plan on going on joining organized tour again… Even though we had a nice group and one spends less time on searching for interesting places to go, arranging short tours or dealing with local hasslers extorting too much money from tourists, it also takes out part of the fun of going to a foreign country, talking to local people and dealing with unexpected or suprising situations. And I thought getting on the road takes some time with just the two of us, multiply that by two or three when there’s always someone to go to the toilet or just getting his stuff ready… Well, as an experienced traveler

See for some more pictures at picasa….

It’s hard to believe the new, tiny iPod shuffle I just got can actually play music in a practical way. It has no display, only one on/off/repeat switch and three small navigation buttons hidden in the headphone cord. Somehow Apple managed to make it usable and look good as well. See how it works at the Apple Shuffle site.

Too bad I’m forced to use the heavyweight bloatware-enabled iTunes software to get it started, but now it’s working winamp seems to do the trick as well.

Update:

The iPod flea seems to be smaller :

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