We left Latakkia at a reasonable hour. No free breakfast at the hotel, so we planned to get it on the run - sods law prevailed and as we got to the bus station, there was a bus just leaving for Damascus. The journey was quite good but we had the brown trouser seats - just behind the driver so we can see everything that's happening! Fortunately we stopped for a tea break where we managed to buy some food. We arrived in Damascus about 2:30. We checked in to the ...

Today was moving day - going from Jordan to Syria. We made an early start - 6:00 am alarm - not use to this since Ken & Judi went home. The first leg of the journey was getting the bus to Amman - which turned out to be relatively painless. It was then across Amman to pick up a shared taxi (we had missed the 7:00a.m bus and the next one was 3:00p.m). The shared taxi is a large taxi (takes 4 to 5 passengers) and goes when its full. We located one that does...