Richard And Jo Demeester's photos with the keyword: water pipe

It was a very big day of driving, after making our two morning stops. We allowed ourselves a break for coffee, and probably more importantly, a toilet. We found this large, quite open, building with a sign for coffee. We worked out they had two things available. Coffee, from a state of the cafe style espresso machine, and water pipes. We had to take our own chairs from the stack, find and move a plastic table to sit at, and there we drank our 50 cent coffees. Meanwhile, those seated around the other two tables barely looked up, as the men seemed quite engrossed in their card games. Good news when smoking a water pipe, you don't even need to use your hands. You can tuck the pip under your arm and bubble away, leaving your hands free to deal with the cards.

We sat down in a typical café in downtown Amman to smoke a nargileh (peach flavoured in this instance) and drink some mint tea. It turned out the café had wifi, enabling us to check our emails. A classic merging of the traditional and the progressive.