Day 9: More from our street

We live on 9th Sha'ban Street in Jabal Amman, but since street names were only put in recently (and there isn't really a tradition of using spacial data in Jordan) no one knows it by that name. The foreigners call it the pet shop street and though I don't know how Ammanites typically refer to it, they know what I mean when I mention the bird and fish shops. The other distinguishing feature is that it is right next to Rainbow Street, which is known all over Amman as it is one of the only real pedestrian areas in town, full of restaurants, cafes, and galleries.

Our street is somewhat old and dirty (it hasn't gone through the revitalization of Rainbow Street) but the bird stores below us have the really nice side effect of starting and ending the days with singing.