From Roba Al Assi's blog
(Picture Credit: Brandt Maxwell)
I can smell the summer; lounging lazily on the couches in our backyard in the shade, askimo, the crowded streets. In the meantime, here’s a list of 50 things you can enjoy this month in Amman’s spring, until the weather hits 30.
- The sun during the day
- Amigo burgers at After Eight
- Ice cream when it’s cold
- The smell of freshly ground Turkish coffee beans
- Turtle Green on a Saturday afternoon
- Reading outdoors
- Meeting cool people
- The cotton candy man
- Lunch with family
- Rainbow Street on a cold night
- The very last days of sahlab
- Your mother’s smile
- Mana2eesh from the foron on a Friday morning
- La Calle’s third floor on a Thursday night
- Spring in Amman
- Family coming in from abroad
- Horrendous and sexist Mother’s Day advertising in Al-Waseet (look at the comical side of it)
- Sushi at ATICO
- The first evening that’s nice enough to enjoy an evening outdoors
- A stroll in l’Weibdeh
- Your brothers (and sisters, I guess, if you have them)
- Hamleh
- Happy hour
- Randomly running into people you like
- Negresco on a weekday
- Your friends
- The garden in bloom
- Interesting conversations with strangers
- Freshly roasted peanuts
- The tiny-ass size of Amman
- Going somewhere random and being surprised at all the faces you’ve never seen before
- The last few rainy showers of the season
- Two-degrees-of-separation serendipty
- The spring breeze
- I repeat, your brothers
- Watermelon season
- Friday mornings
- Saturday mornings
- When a friend makes you dinner
- Discovering a new place
- When the gods of parking space smile down on you
- The laughter of strangers
- The voices of kids playing outside
- A really eccentric-looking person walking in Amman
- A day at the Dead Sea while Amman is still cold
- Eating fries from Batata on the sidewalk
- When your grandmother sends you a dish you really love, just for you
- Hot knafeh
- Conversations with friends you haven’t seen in years
- Lunch in the garden
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