{"id":5826,"date":"2010-10-18T08:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2010-10-11T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:54:32","slug":"chevrolet-palestine-and-exceptional-hummus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/?p=5826","title":{"rendered":"Chevrolet, Palestine, and Exceptional Hummus"},"content":{"rendered":"

We woke up in our room at the Safwan and decided to indulge in a little bathing.<\/p>\n

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We had not done so in quite some time. In part because the arid climate of Syria kept us pretty dry, which made us feel clean, and in part because the poor quality of the showers at our beloved Hotel Ziad Al Kabir in Damascus had been quite the deterrent.\u00a0 In fact, Scott later disclosed to us that he had been afraid even to use the bathrooms for missions more serious than urination.<\/p>\n

So it was in an atypically shiny and manageable state that we emerged from the Safwan, hopped on our cycles, and headed out into Latakia, in search, unsurprisingly, of coffee. Not far into the search, as we were driving by a central park, we spotted a fellow wheeler who had attached a few of those Jordanian style giant coffee urns to his cycle.<\/p>\n

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We decided we had better try some and found it to be truly delicious and mind bogglingly cheap. So we propped the bikes up against a wall and began to settle down for a few cups.<\/p>\n