Regency Park Hotel Damascus
, Bloudan Damascus, Syria
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Surviving Syria
... of a microwave for a few minutes, came back with my meal. Oh great! Let's put the microwave where the customers can hear it. The meal of rice and chicken was average but at the end of the meal I bit into something that I thought was a chicken bone until I took it out of my mouth and noticed it was a large piece of glass. I showed her the piece of glass but she just sheepishly took my plate away and disappeared. No apology. Too embarrassed to admit any fault, even if it ...
Allah (God), Syria (our Country), Bashar..........
... the streets and the thud, thud, thud of a military helicopter overhead. I have never seen Alex awake so quickly. In my head I was picturing a small gathering of people walking the streets chanting and displaying the national colors as we had seen from our hotel in Lattakia a week earlier.
When I asked the hotel manager what was happening, she smiled and reassured me that everything is fine….."The people on the streets are celebrating our ...
Becoming a Syrian movie-star
As-Salamu Alykum or hello in English (it literally means 'Peace be upon you' in Arab)!
After a 5 hour flight with a stop-off in Beirut I finally arrived at 1 AM on Wednesday morning in Amman, Jordan. It turned out that the airport bus is not in function at that time of night, but fortunately I met 2 Arab/Swedish guys in the airplane to share a taxi with into town. It's still weird though to arrive in a strange town at 2 AM in the night, not knowing where the hostel is or ...
Eid al Adha
I walk down the short hallway leading to the front door, pull the latch, swing the sturdy door open, duck under the low archway and step into the narrow alley that connects my house to the main street. I walk a few steps down the alley and hang a left past the local convenience store. I greet the vendors, who return my greeting with a hand over the heart and a warm 'salam'. Two kids chasing each-other with sticks rush past me as I walk under an archway connected to a small mosque. ...
Can't believe
... the time I was in Damascuss. Wonderfull guy eventhough he rides a Harley!!.
Left for Maloula where the people ther speaks Aramic (the language spoken in the days of Christ), I notice very strong police presense on the roads as I leav Damascuss. for my luck, the president was hosting the Venezuelan President Chivas and they were visiting Maloula. so IU had no chance. well unless I stay for ...
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