By Tala Bassam Momani
My Grandmother told me how she had once visited my grandfather many years ago whilst he was serving in the British army in Samakh (a village south of Lake Tiberius – west of the Jordan River). She went by train, crossing the Jordan River, but for some reason she missed her stop and ended up in Jaffa. She could not go back to Samakh as there was no trip back, so she ended up returning in the next train back to Jordan. She told my grandfather that she had changed her mind about visiting; she was actually embarrassed to tell him that she had missed her stop!