Not really all that much to tell from today.  It was a travel day filled with the hassles one tends to get on such days.  It started out all right, the taxi I’d booked the night before arrived on time and took us promptly to the ferry terminal at Aqaba.  That is where the problems started.

If you read the entry where we came to Jordan on the Ferry then you have a fair idea of how things went.  The experience was similar.  Wandering around up stairs, then down them.  Going from one office to the next to arrange tickets, departure tax and passport stamps.  I was glad that we got there early to sort it all out.  Much to our surprise the busses to take us to the ferry were pretty much on time although it took a pacing and staring out the windows since none of the announcements were in English, obviously.

Once on the Ferry though.  That was when the delay happened.  We just sat there as time ticked by I was glad of my decision to stay the night at Nuweiba instead of hopping strait on a bus to Cairo.  somehow in the back of my mind I knew this would happen.  What should have taken 1 - 2 hours ended up taking about 5 hours.  Once out of the Ferry, that was a drama in itself due to that really stupid panic over the so called swine flu.  I guess we can thank the media for that one.  Anyway once off we went on the hunt for mum and dad’s passports at the ferry terminal.  Eventually after what had become the standard running around we found the office and they retrieved their passports.

We ended up back at the same place that we’d had dinner at last time we were here right of the beach out at Tarabin.  A lovely little spot, the name of it escapes me right now but when I manage to find the business card I’ll update the journal.  We sat drinking a clod beer watching as the sun disappeared.  It had been a long day.