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A travel blog entry by emilywright

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... only men there in the evening Cheap shops Everywhere has building works being done, when everything is done it will feel much bigger. Not a city for nice restaurants, either expensive and empty or fast food and packed. Loads of sushi here and only a few falafel shops. Coffee shops are all chains and are all full of overpriced lattees. The Lebanese are obsessed with plastic surgery and all of our generation have nose, lips, cheeks and breast surgery. Most men ...

Lebanon

A travel blog entry by hodizzle

... bar. The room looked to hold about twenty people at maximum capacity. Aside from us, there were only two other patrons. Both sitting and talking with Moe.

Neil and I kept to ourselves for a little while, reminiscing in the corner. When the other two patrons left, Moe asked us where we were from. He said that he lived in Los Angeles for awhile. Neil ordered a beer. We followed up with small talk about the ...

Lebanon - Yalla habibi!

A travel blog entry by waynedale

... when the Iron Curtain disappeared and witnessing people experience freedom for the first time in many of their lives. My stay in Lebanon is almost at an end and I must now prepare myself for the next big adventure - Russia. I already have my visa which I obtained here at their Beirut embassy by telling a few jokes with the staff. Result - I got a visa in record time for a quarter of the price. I have no idea how that happened but it only shows that by being nice ...

Mountains and Mikati

A travel blog entry by aubreycox

... the range. John and I will be making a trip to Faraya to ski in the coming weeks. Luckily, Faraya is close enough to Beirut that we are able to hire a car to drive us up to the resort in the morning, ski all day, and ride home at night. This will allow us to avoid paying for a hotel.

While in the north, our internship coordinator took us to visit the R.M.F. facility for working children. The program was funded by the ...

Wine, Hizbollah, Saida, and Jounieh

A travel blog entry by camelsandtacos

... on the top floor near the duty free book shop where I picked up Off The Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War
by Zeina Maasri. It is mind blowing learning about all the warring
political factions ...