We woke up at the campsite for another day of strolling the souq, but this time we had set goals! We took the spare tire from the roof, placed it on the front hood to make room on the roof rack, and we made a plan on the map with the first stop being souq Saroujah. The car we parked at Bab Touma gate in the Christian quarters, where the dress-code for women does not include a headscarf. When we reached the souq, we already walked for more then an hour, the legs began to get tired from yesterdays souq-marathon and the desired shopping list still long. After looking around and eating lunch in this neighborhood, that unfortunately did not have that many nice markets, we decided to go to familiar grounds.
Soon we made some good progress in old town, but needed help to carry all the stuff back to the car (20 minute walk). After the first load, the only question that arose was how to fit everything in the car and already the second load was being packed,… I would say, problem for later!Back at the campsite Stanley talked to a German couple driving a Land cruiser. He comes back with the news that diesel is a very scarce fuel in Syria due to our friend Bush. Gas stations that sill have diesel will have enormous lines of people wanting to fuel-up. Since we are almost out of diesel, about 50 liters left, an option was to buy from the campsite owner. He had a fuel truck come by to fill jerry cans. We bought 100 liters for a total of $ 33!!! After Stanley took a sip of diesel, from looking at his face it didn’t taste too good, we could siphon all into the car.
