Gosh, I miss the super high-speed connections in Turkey with no filters. It seems that for some reason, Syria also has the same annoying filters that blocks Facebook and even Youtube! (Youtube!!!) Of course I can see why, cos more than once I have walked by cubicles with users surfing pictures of scantily-dressed women, bordering on the edge of pornography pretty much.

Otherwise, everything else has been pretty alright. I'm currently in the city of Hama, Syria - will be spending a few more days in Syria (i'm losing count of the days already) before going to Jordan (last stop) and I'll be flying back to London on the 5th of January.

And of course, here's wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! I wanted to say this yesterday, but the internet cafe we were at yesterday had TWO blackouts while we were there, and got us pretty annoyed so we left. But as I always say, there're twelve days of Christmas, so it's never too late.

Oh, and if you were expecting a X'mas card from me but haven't received it yet, it could be one of the two reasons below:
1. The Turkish/Iranian post is really slow (i think that's quite true)
2. Kenny didn't affix enough postage when he sent the cards in Iran. It was supposed to be IR4000, but he only put stamps for IR1000, which was the going rates of postcards (noone told me cards were different from postcards!!)

I hope I don't return to Cambridge to find my pigeon hole full of returned cards (then again, they have to return it to the UK, so they might as well send it... ;p)

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