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Lousy blogger
... It is quite moving.
Nevertheless the country is growing and prospering. Downtown Beirut is full of buliding cranes and construction everywhere. apenthouse aprtment in downtown is around $5,000,000. I did put the right amount of zeroes.
The crime here is less than in the states. No child abductions, people going into where they work and killing people, or anyone shooting up a movie theater. I am ashamed on where ...
(4) The Mountains and The Valley
... stayed here – perhaps because there was no other option, but that aside. The hotel was requisitioned by the Germans in WWI, and by the Allies in WWII. Now it is mostly faded grandeur. The rooms are not very clean anymore, and not that well maintained – peeling paint, moulded bathroom ceilings. The doorman and the sweeper seem to be from its heydays, both are pretty old, and can certainly not carry heavy suitcases up the stairs ...
A Long Overdue Update
... room, we started the tour. We first drove to Bane, the village John's great grandparents lived in before immigrating to America. They showed us the family home and the local churches. On the way to Bane, we passed through Besharry. Besharry is the highest village in the Middle East, and offered incredible views of the Mountains and the Sea.
After Bane, we drove to Bekaakra to see the home of St. Charbel which is attached to a church. ...
Baalbek, Anjaar and Wine country!
... as traffic is bad, roads all over the place and not clearly marked (if at all) and drivers worse, it was good to have George our driver that new his stuff.
Departing early, we had a brief stop at Pigeon Rocks to see them in the early morning sunlight before we drove toward Baalbek, famous for it roman ruins, north east of Beirut. We drove over Mount Lebanon and down into the Bekka valley, rich with farmland.
In Baalbek, the ...
Grease and Money
... clears my table. "Something else?" "Just tea please" "Something sweet?" "No, just tea." "With mint?" "Sure"
I finish my tea and get up to pay. There turns out to be some confusion about my bill, I had read it as 960LL($7), but it turned out to be 1600LL ($11). In a single mediocre lunch I managed to eat my food budget for 3 days in Damascus. "Welcome to Beirut" he explained, his glassy eyes starring past mine.
I spent the afternoon wandering ...
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