Waiting

Hello there. I figured I'd get stuck in to what is happening on the convoy, and leave the philosophising for later, so very briefly, here's what happened over the last few days.

The aid convoy, 200 vehicles carrying tonnes of aid to Gaza, arrived in Aqaba, South Jordan, on Thursday night. Since then we haven't been able to board a boat to Egypt in order to get to Gaza becuase the Egyptian authorities will not grant us access. The full story is here http://tinyurl.com/yguhem6 from Aljazeera, possibly the only major network to give us any kind of coverage (which will the subject of another post).

Now we're in the sunny seaside resort town of Aqaba, which is one of the nicest places you could wish to get stuck. The people of the town have gone out of their way to help us - I'm now in a free and very decent hotel on the free wifi - and the mood among the convoy members is fantastic, despite the standoff. Last night there was a spontaneous singalong which eventually grew into a full-on competition between the local Jordanians and the Turkish contingent.

There's a celebration happening right now at the camp, so I will go there, but will post more later.