After a gloriously cool nights sleep, despite the near constant chatter of two kiwis who decided they wanted to see the sunrise form the same rooftop we were sleeping on, we were up, showered and out for breakfast. We decided to break with our Egyptian tradition and forego the falafel, opting instead for spiced rice, salad and the most beautiful creamy hummus (the Egyptian stuff was rubbish – far too runny) with plenty of flat bread.
We wandered along the beach front stopping to sit and rest on a wall overlooking the beach. Underneath us there was a family with three young children sleeping under a sheet, the mother was really friendly and when she saw us looking at her sleeping angels and smiling, she started chatting and invited us down for food, having just eaten we declined but she insisted and passed some food up to us, hummus, foul (a creamed bean dish) and some freshly cooked bread. She was so sweet and friendly, I couldn't help but think that if the same situation had happened in Egypt we would have been wondering 'how much money will she want?' but she wanted nothing, she was just a lovely, generous, friendly woman. We eventually got to the tourist office (after being told off by the police for touching and even they were friendly) where they among other things, pointed us in the right direction for some good ice-cream where we duly headed and indulged in a single scoop each. We met the French/Flemish couple from the ferry crossing over, the second time we'd bumped into them that morning. After a small time chilling under the ice-cream shop's air-con we went in search of a café with wifi, a miserably hot and interminably long walk round the posh parts of Aqaba, absolutely painful in the heat. After about five years of what felt like aimless searching we ended up back near our hotel where we got directions to a nearby internet café and then spent most of the afternoon there, sleeping while Djalma tried to sort our the dodgy connection and then sorting out diary entries and uploading them onto our blog.
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We left the café for the beach front to watch the sun set over Israel just across the water, it was gorgeous and then all the lights started coming on and made it even better – I do like to see the lights turn on a few at a time until it looks like a place is festooned with fairy lights. We walked along the sea front, the sand comfortably and refreshingly fine to walk on and in other places covered with sharp little stones trying to become one with the soles of my feet. The water was full of children playing, most of them hanging in the middle of the yellow rubber duckie rings being sold all along the beach front. It was such a nice way to spend an evening but we turned back in the direction of the internet café away from the fully clothed bathers, to go and finish up the work on the blog that we had left to catch the sun setting.
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An hour and a half later we finished. I was wide awake from my nap in the afternoon but my body was knackered and I wasn't feeling too great in the heat. We got a massive juice for dinner and then headed back to our room on the roof to sleep under the stars.
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