This is one of my favorite places in Amterrdam: the Concergebouw, or Concert Hall. One warmish autumn evening, I arrived early enough to enjoy the sunset end-of-day energy on the Museumplein (across the street), the park around which are arranged most of Amsterdam’s most famous museums such as the Rijks, Van Gogh and Stadelijk Museums, before entering the hall. Ah, the joys of being based in a place where live performances (again) happen and are readily accessible.
I think with Jerash, I’ll try to to post photos in roughly the sequence in which I saw them, since it’s a reasonably compact but still quite large area with an awful lot of stuff, and this way I’ll remember what things were so I can name the photos files correctly. 🙂 Above: looking south at the hippodrome with its arches as the south end, and the dramatic Hadrian’s Arch entrance (viz Jerash.2) to the left, and the hills of Jordan and the contemporary city of Jerash beyond. Below: more of the same :-).
Amman is full of hills, and home to many ancient ruins. The Citadel is in the heart of the old city, with its oldest ruins dating to the Romans, and the dramatic lovely domed audience-hall dating to the Umayyad dynasty. That building with the dome is the most intact structure remaining. Since we have so very many photos still from both Jerash and Petra to work our way through, I’m going to be doing larger posts with more photos from Amman. It has a reputation among some as being a “boring” city in the Middle East. I think boring might be welcome to many residents of other cities, but what do I know?
(so much world, so little time....) 
