This will be my last column, and for a while I was at a loss for the focus. Having just been on a week's holiday in Jordan, the focus presented itself in a Bedouin tent. When told we would take cardamom coffee and tea in the desert with Bedouins, I was expecting a contrived event. Although there are 'Bedouin for tourists tents' it was clear when we arrived that this was a genuine family living in some poverty but with huge dignity who were very shyly hosting us.Two young children in Western dress welcomed us with handshakes and the husband, wife, elder son and grandmother received us in Bedouin style. Our Jordanian guide explained that only he came to this family with Western groups; it was clear he was trying to support them as a family.
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