Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
I here what you say, but! BUT----------- and I say this with great respect to all, the average Jordanian may or may not understand the Scots wearing the kilt ------------but an American/ or a person fromFinland/or France/wherever other than the UK. ? That is what your passport will say presumably, if push comes to shove. Think on chaps, if I were you.
I may add (actually I had this in the text, but stumbled with the pictures and had to rewrite it...)
We were a group of Finnish people. "Our professor" was known to many locals at the sites we visited and well respected. This may or may not make any difference.
About the passport: Some years earlier I was the sole passenger in an Egyptian long-distance couch on Sinai (not kilted then). There were pretty many check-points where they checked my passport, sometimes just asking the driver who I am. On one occasion the official misheard the driver saying me an American. All smiles disappeared... well, the tension helped immediately and everyone smiled widely again when they saw my Finnish passport.
Well, if you travel with an American passport in any Arab country, I would be very careful.
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
--- Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951)
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