Albergo Beirut
137 Abdel Wahab El Inglizi St Beirut, Lebanon
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The first few days...
After an enormously long journey taking us through Washington, Connecticut, New York, Warsaw, and finally Beirut, we have arrived. We arrived at 3:00 am to Beirut international airport, and met our driver Ali at baggage claim. Toby's friend, Bechara Namour, arranged Ali to pick us up and drop us off at the Albergo Hotel. When we arrived at the …
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Lebanon Trip Recap
For this year's Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Adha in Arabic), we had nine days off work, which, true to form, we planned to take advantage of exploring another country. With all the Diego searching going on in September and October, we got a very late start looking for flights, resulting in a much more pared down list of cheap flights. After ruling out the chillier destinations, we zeroed in on Lebanon and bought our tickets.
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Lebanon
... was certainly going to happen, I still had not gotten to the point of tangibly acknowledging that fact. I had two or three weeks of life to live before I would come close to pondering what Lebanon had to offer. It was like Neil and I were getting married in some distant future and he wanted my opinion on what kind of flowers we should buy for the reception. My response to his emails, not the kind of shared excitement ...
The Heart of Beirut!
... French: Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population ranging from some 1 million to more than 2 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean, it serves as the country's largest and main ...
A Land of Contrasts
... cost and I couldn't resist catching the movie True Grit at the cinema and visiting Dunkin' Donuts a few times for breakfast. It is hard to believe that Beirut was once a battleground during the Lebanon's devastating civil war and later war with Israel. Still there are some grim reminders of this turbulent time. A towering, bombed out concrete building standing next to the 5-star Phonetician hotel was once a Holiday Inn, opened shortly before the start of the civil ...



