Ammanized

Again I realized that even though the sun in Aqaba is too hot during the day, in the evenings I can't get enough of it.

After finishing the Open Water Diver course, on my 6th dive, I reached 20 m. And saw some morays!

Somehow these little mannequins really freak me out.

Obviously while taking this picture I got honked approx. gazillion times.

This one is obviously for my mom. <3

Not everything is - or should be - for sale. PS. I also love how it says "unsold" also with arabic script!

Today was the 64th Nakba Day. My heart goes out to all the people still waiting.

I'm going to have a new hobby. I guess you can guess what it is.

Tala Bay Marina is pretty impressive in many ways. PS. If you don't understand the title, this might help you. :)

The spelling is not the only problem in the picture, if we consider what it means to be "free and equal in dignity and rights."

I met 15-year-old Manal and her family at the Umayyad mosque. They hoped I'd marry a muslim and start covering.

Part of my heart is in Damascus. More pictures coming soon.

28 °C, sandy and humid. The spring in Amman is very different from the Finnish one.

I got some complaints that there's no pictures of the little room/balcony(/erkkeri in Finnish) I call home. So here you go.

But I know that at his new home he is being well taken care of.

I'm amazed by this Wonder Beirut -project of two Lebanese artists. From here you can download an article about it.

I can totally imagine this dog enjoying a car ride with an open window. Real or not.

Only recently I found Darat al Funun, an amazing contemporary Arab art center with a small but impressive art library.

Amman is not very green, so every time I find some flowers and trees in here it makes me happy.

It would be nice to see what the owner of this car wears. I sure love his/her color palette.

More pictures and my article about Mleeta was published in Suomen Kuvalehti 18/2012. Unfortunately it's not online.