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Surviving Syria
... a serviced taxi which means they take other passengers. One of the other passengers was an English guy and everything negative happened to him on the very short trip to Beirut. I know what that's like. Sometimes it's as if nothing is going right and it clearly wasn't his lucky day. He was ripped off by one of the guards and he got into an argument with another one. I helped him out as he spoke no Arabic so I was able to smooth out the process and he was eventually allowed ...
A Trip to Ma' Loula
... with Maria, a highly accomplished retired doctor, living in Sweden, who had spent many years providing medical care in Africa with her husband. She was also a veteran of Syria with many personal contacts and an extremely interesting person.
So I teamed up with Maria for a trip to Ma' Loula, some 50km north of Damascus and home to one of ...
Allah (God), Syria (our Country), Bashar..........
... government rallies and heard a lot of theories as to who had organised them and why people attended. We also spoke to some travellers who had seen a couple of attempted protests in Damascus which were shut down almost straightaway by police. We saw a police presence everywhere we went, on every street corner and at all major buildings. We heard a lot of talk about secret police, apparently a fact of everyday life in Syria. We checked the international news sites every day ...
Becoming a Syrian movie-star
... stores though, only Amstel and 2.5 EUR per can), got me to a nice restaurant and gave tons of information about the country and surrounding region. They live in a very nice apartment in the Embassy area, very different from the rest of the city and easy to find!
The next day I spent in Jerash, an antique city that was inhabited from 3000 BC till 740 AD. Very large and impressive, although a couple of earthquakes have leveled it quite efficiently. Some of the nice touches ...
Eid al Adha
... been commanded. You will find me, god willing, very patient." (Compare this response to the modern day teenagers response to a request to do the dishes.) Both father and son were prepared to make the sacrifice, and as they set to perform the task, god acknowledge their obedience, and presented them with a ram which was to be sacrificed in lieu of Ishmael. They breathed a collective sigh of relief, and sacrificed the ram. To this day sheep, goats, cows and camels throughout ...



