Safir Al Sayedah Zeinab Hotel
Travel Blogs from Damascus
Lost in Translation
... German, Turkish and Persian with apparent ease. "The worst thing I think is a very much aspirated H." she claimed "I can only say it by holding down my tongue with one finger." Personally I've found that I have to move the finger a little beyond the tongue to get some of the sounds just right.
The real challenge with the language does not lie in the backwards lacy script (which really isn't that difficult), or the strange noises (the muscles ...
Love and travel have in common .....
... old guard.
Damascus, where we are now, is home to Islam's third most important site after Mecca and Medina. The Umayyad Mosque built back in 705AD. There is a huge courtyard where, as Mosques are social centres as much as places of devotion, people lounge, eat, chatter, children chase each other, the faithful wash before going in to pray and tourist women wander around self consciously in flapping floor length hooded grey garments covering themselves. It is one of the most ...
Como si no hubiera pasado nada...
Ya estamos de vuelta en Damasco. Más de 4 meses en España. Mi mala pata nos ha hecho pasar una gran parte de nuestro tiempo en Madrid, justo donde no queríamos estar, donde ya hemos estado suficiente y donde estaremos… Este tipo de imprevistos le hacen a uno encararse a la vida con más resignación. Por mucho que uno se organice, por mucho que uno lo desee, por mucho que uno piense que tiene su vida bajo control… la vida a uno le lleva y le trae, y ...
Sayyidna Zainab(AS)
... area catering to the pilgrims from all over the world who come to pay their respects to this great lady.
After I got dropped off right at one of the gates of the mosque, I was stuck dumb. I really don't know where to start. Subhanallah the moment you enter the courtyard of this exemplary lady your mind enters into a state of peace. I just felt like sitting at her doorstep ...
Damn that Bloody Sun... and the Israelis
... the land from, and the people they killed. I wondered where the food goes, I wondered if it ended up in British supermarkets, marked as a "product of Israel". And its reasons like the view in front of me that reaffirm my boycott of Israeli goods, and I urge anyone who doesn't, to do the same.
Later as we walked in the heat through the 'town' (there was no aircon to be found here) we came across a big building, completely riddled with bullet holes, more so than any other, with ...
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