Jordan, UNICEF, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson
When you work freelance, you are often waiting for the phone to ring and to get your next job. And when it does, you’re often least expecting it and busy doing something completely different.
So as I was busy sorting out the laundry basket and dashing around doing the washing, the phone rang and I was asked if I could ‘go to The Jordan next week’! Wasn’t expecting that.
I was to record the visit of Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson to the launch of an Olympic initiative called ‘International Inspiration’. I was filming for UNICEF who are also supporting International Inspiration.
I had the pleasure of hooking up with a Sky News Olympic team and we followed Tanni around during her visit.
Of note during the visit was that we stayed in the Hyatt Grand Hotel. It was bombed by a suicide bomber in 2005. During the night, there was a car crash outside my hotel window – got us all a little jumpy…
We also visited the Souf refugee camp. Not so much a tented camp, but now a small concrete town because it has been there since 1967. Crazy middle east politics.
