A colleague here cautioned us about 6 months ago that if you are only in a country for two years, you need to plan out where you want to go because there are only a limited number of holiday weekends or Eids and they can slip by. Last year, we didn't make plans for Eid (the holiday which follows Ramadan) and we were kicking ourself when we had a sleepy weekend at home. So now we are over-planning and have booked transportation and hotels for the next three holiday weekends:
Labor Day - Aqaba - which Duffy has only visited for work but Dan has never seen
Eid - Cairo and Alexandria
Columbus Day - Aleppo (Syria's other big city which we have been told is totally different from Damascus)
At this point, we have seen nearly everything we wanted to see in Jordan so our travel is more complicated because it invariably involves a flight (and tickets are expensive and don't run very often).
We are not planning beyond this because our next "must see before we leave" city is probably Dubai but if we are assigned to Bahrain then we won't go to Dubai now but will wait until we live in the Gulf. Likewise if we are going to Bucharest, we might wait on a trip to Turkey. If we are going someplace in N. America, then we will be frantically scheduling long weekends in both places.
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wow..those all sound fun! Can't wait to hear about your next location.
I agree you have some interesting vacation spots picked out. I look forward to hearing about your next job assignment. You might end up with more visitors if you end up in the Caribbean. :-)
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