To Petra, teenagers in tow
admin September 9th, 2007
Would you take a teenager on a family holiday to Jordan. Martin Symington would. And did. And wrote about it in the Times this week. Petra was one of the highlights of their journey. And remember that photograph of a camel drinking a can of cola? The met it in Petra and fed the poor thing’s addiction.
a camel, introduced to us by her minder as Zuza, sitting on the ground with head held high in haughty expectation. It was 13-year-old Laura Winter’s idea to buy some Diet Coke instead of the regular Coca-Cola. “Better for her health,” she reasoned. Then she and my son Sebastian, 14, each fed a can to Zuza, whose trick was to open it with her teeth, tilt her head back, glug the contents and spit out the twisted metal
