It snowed this morning. This just four days after we swam outside at a Dead Sea resort. Now admittedly, we only swam outside in a heated pool for about 10 minutes before I was able to convince Dan that we should swim at the inside pool – which had both heated water and heated air.
Amman is up in the hills and we have discovered multiple times that the weather can be cold (okay cold by Jordanian standards) and gray but it can at the same time be sunny and warm in the Jordan valley (where the Dead Sea is) – just 45 minutes away. I think this is most akin to the microclimates that Californians describe around San Francisco and the phenomenon that you can drive out of cold, gray San Francisco and end up somewhere sunny and warm pretty fast.
Several times this cold week (meaning high 50 degrees in Amman), Jordanians have apologized about the weather to me. It seems like their sense of hospitality extends to the weather. All conversations here are about either (1) the cold, which no one likes and (2) the rising price of everything. Inflation is hitting average Jordanians pretty hard because of rising world food and oil prices combined with Jordan’s currency being pegged to the falling US Dollar.
Unrelated, Jordan’s restaurants – the fanciest and the cheapest were featured in the New York Times last week.
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Have you been to these restaurants, or did this give you some new ideas?
We had snow here too, but the girls were sad it melted before they had a chance to make snow angels.
I have been to all but Al Quds - which looks a little dodgy - but maybe this is the push to make us be brave and go in.
I checked out the article online - even though we get the Times everyday, I rarely get the chance to read it.
Also, we got your holiday card in the mail yesterday - made us both chuckle!!
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