We are we are in a comfortable hotel called AlQasr, too bad Arabic words cannot be used in scrabble. That pesky Q. Does not require U here.
We went searching for an ATM machine...we needed one with a particular icon, finally at a hospital we found one..R used her cardSUCCESS. Then not for mine, we crossed over to a partner ATM which proceeded to keep my card!,!,,after after frantically pushing buttons written in Arabic and a few anxious minutes it spit out my card. I finally got 100:dinars. Referred to a JDs (Jordanian dinars)
Unfortunately our C$is so weak it costs us close to 2$ for one dinar. I.e. we pay 1.80 for 1 JD. Where as the US$ .88 So a dollar less that us...I checked with my Canadian bank and my 100 JDs cost me 205.
As we left hospital it poured. Bucketing down..we hailed what we thought a taxi. Turned out to,be a private person , a nurse returning homing home, he wanted to do a good deed so drove us home not wanting recompense, this in contrast to a taxi ordered by the restaurant who demanded ten whereas going had cost 2...we told out hotel person who gave us 5 saying that was outrageous...and so it goes,.
We meet our Jordan guide tomorrow,
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