Snow Day in Amman
When you come to one of the most water deprived countries in the world where the temperature gets up to 50C in the summer, you don't...
The Treasury at Petra on Waitangi Day
Hopefully thanks to a sudden surge in band width this should be a video of part of our trip to Petra. If not, enjoy the blank look.
Snow & City Shut Down
Heard of the "crack" of dawn? We have just had the "thunder of dark". It's 5.20pm and it has been a cold and miserable day in Amman,...
Talking about the Weather
On site today we talked about the weather a bit. As has been happening the last couple of days we have woken up to cool, rainy and foggy...
A Day in Square 21SS
The Tall el-Hamman archeological site is surveyed into over 13,000 6x6m squares. I think less than 100 have been dug on. I have been...
The Promised Land
The rain of last night had stopped by get up time although Amman was covered with dark cloud and fog. We set out for Tall El-Hamman half...
Around the Dead Sea
Photo 1 - Today I dug up 505 pottery sherds in an area 1m square and about 150mm deep, just about setting a dig site record. About 3000...
Lowest of the Low
After all this time worked out how to do more than one photo per blog- duh!. Anyway, today Helen and I joined the lowest of the low and...
3000 year old domestics
Helen is leaning out our hotel room window three stories up looking down at a wedding party that has just arrived for their reception in...
The Storm is Over!
We woke up to a cold morning and thankfully the dust cloud had gone but leaving its tell tale covering over everything inside and out....
