March 1996 Petra twon - With our suitcases still in hand, just arrived into town, we met a touristic policeman and we prepared our best Arabic speech to ask for some information. The meanings was supossed to be "I am looking for a room with hot water" that more or less should sound like this (I ask sorry to all Arabs) "Ana ourid wahad gurfa maya aar". Yes, I know the pronunciation is almost awful eh eh eh. Moral the policeman stares at us quite perplexed and replied "Are you trying to speak arabic?". Moral general laugh of us all, but this simple moment of laughing had opened our interlocutor's heart whom had been then very helpful in guideing us to the cheapest and comfortable hotels near the entrance of the archeological site of Petra.