Re: www Where was I? 14th August. Jordan holiday cd 17 Aug

Have you got the link please?
Elise

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> Haven't seen this posted yet:
>
> The prize:
> A luxurious one-week tour of Jordan for two, courtesy of the Middle
> East specialist Cox & Kings. The eight-day Splendours of Jordan tour
> is a private, chauffeur-driven journey, staying in five-star hotels on
> a B&B basis (with some other meals included), and taking in all the
> great sights of the country, including Jerash, Mount Nebo, the Dead
> Sea and Wadi Rum. The highlight is a three-night stay at Petra. The
> prize, which includes return flights from Heathrow, must be taken
> before May 31, 2006, excluding December 15-31, 2005, and April 8-18,
> 2006, subject to availability.
>
> Cox & Kings offers group tours and private journeys in locations
> ranging from Morocco, Libya and Egypt through to Central Asia. For
> more information, call 020 7873 5000 or visit www.coxandkings.co.uk.
>
> Win a luxurious holiday touring Jordan for a week
> Read the article below and answer the questions at the end of the
> text. Clues to the answers can be found within the story
>
> THE COMPETITION
>
> One of today's aims, in time-honoured tradition, is to find something
> that no longer exists. My journey commences in a small town, the
> reputed birthplace, circa AD518, of a saint - his day: January 14.
> (Traditionally, he founded a city 27 miles to the southwest.) Here, I
> discovered an abbey, of 13th-century origin, and a palace - though
> that word is, perhaps, a slight misnomer. However, now it is time to
> seek that certain something that isn't there or, rather, its site.
>
> I motor east. Through there, to the south, 45 acres of steel; and
> seven east-northeasterly miles beyond that, a second small town, which
> I set off to explore. It stakes its place in history by being the
> world's first train-ferry terminus. The twin-tone echo of a horn
> reminds me that the railway is still present, unlike the ferry - long
> vanished. Even so, I feel duty bound to find from where it sailed - by
> the harbour, presumably. Here it is that I unpack my picnic lunch and
> devour my ham-and-watercress sandwiches.
>
> Hunger sated, I resume my journey in an easterly direction to find a
> glorious sandy bay rolled out before me; the road, meanwhile, clings
> tenaciously to the cliff, together with the railway. It was
> hereabouts, a mile out of the town, that a king (mother: Mary de
> Couci) got a little too close to the edge and fell to his death.
> Beyond, the road swings north and brings me to a third town, whose
> sons include an economist after whom a 1977 think tank was named; and
> an architect and sometime member of parliament who was born in 1728. I
> park near the 15th-century castle, put on my rucksack and strike out
> northeast.
>
> The afternoon heat soon takes its toll: time to crack open my bottle
> of ginger beer. Flopping out in the sun, I consult my map: I had hoped
> to walk to a fourth, small town, a mile northeast of the castle. It
> was the birthplace, in 1815, of an explorer who, after several
> attempts, became the first colonist to cross Australia. He was made of
> sterner stuff than me, for, though I am certain the temperature here
> is positively balmy compared with what he experienced, I feel
> exhausted. As explorers, we barely stand comparison. He trekked
> thousands of miles; I have merely wandered forth.
>
> The questions
>
> 1 In which town did my journey commence?
> 2 What is the name of the fourth town?
>
> Click the button above to submit your entry or send your answers on a
> postcard to Where Was I? August 14, 2005, PO Box 5078, Leighton
> Buzzard LU95 1AE, by Wednesday. The winner will be announced next
> week. Only one entry per household. Normal Times Newspapers rules
> apply. No correspondence will be entered into.
>
> Last week's answers are Stratford-upon-Avon and Edgehill. M Leadbetter
> of Cumbria wins £1,000 in holiday vouchers to spend with any
> specialist operator at www.aito.co.uk.
>
>
>
>


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