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A not so usual celebration of Eidh The festival of Eidh al Fitr has passed, as has the coincident 74th Year of Jordanian Independence. It has been a relatively quiet time compared to the usual…

Jordan's recovery: The power of just one After over a week when Jordan reported no new internal cases of covid-19, and many of the limitations of lockdown were lifted, suddenly the statistics looked bad –…

Week 7 of Jordan lockdown: Spring awakening… A lot has changed in Jordan over the last 10 days. The spring flowers have come and gone. And so has the virus. After many days with only…

Week 6 of Jordan lockdown: Visiting Fears… Signs of the times while window shopping on Rainbow Street As with many of our friends, we’ve not talked much about our fears during the pandemic. But the…

Week 5 of Jordan lockdown…Ramadan Mubarak! We’ve accepted that we will probably remain in Amman for the next month. We are certainly pleased to stay here that long, but we do regret missing the full…

Day 30 of Jordan lockdown: A high-flying week... Street sale for kites to float above the hilltops As we mentioned yesterday, over the last week Jordan has seen an average of only 5 new cases…

Day 28 of Jordan lockdown: Choices... We needed to make a choice during the last few days, a choice of whether to leave Jordan for Portugal or stay, most likely through the end of Ramadan…

Day 22 of Jordan lockdown: Curfew and color… Except for the loudspeakers chanting prayers five times a day from the otherwise empty mosques, Amman has been an eerily quiet city during yesterday and today. We…

Day 19: Under control and innovating… Many of you expressed such a heartwarming concern about us after our last journal post. Rest assured we are fine and apparently Jordan is even finer, flying high like…