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Surviving Syria
... here (Syrian sanctions) and I shouldn't have to call them if they're professional enough to have an office somewhere. They didn't. It wasn't a very professional arrangement, as I found out, and a week later I received an email from the director who explained that he was "in France" and he's now back. Too late. I also had to interview a rather crazy private tutor whose teaching methodology I quite liked but when he started talking quite openly about the government (in ...
Hamam time
From filming in monasteries around Damascus on the first day, we got into filming in Damascus itself for the next 3 days. Wednesday’s shots were all around the old city walls, re-enacting some ancient scenes. I didn’t have to act in these: my story line revolves around 4 backpackers travelling around Syria seeing various sites and doing a number of different activities. The other story line is for 2 actors (Seraphine and Neil) who travel Syria as a couple and ...
Axis of zataar, mosques and neon mountains
... teenage boy brings our coffee then goes back to dilly-dallying.
The Middle Eat so far feels very safe. Safer in fact than any other country I have been to, not just on this trip. I am including Morocco in this observation. I am excluding the traffic on the roads. In Beirut alone, I narrowly escaped being hit by a motor cycle twice.
Off to Jordan next to hopefully continue feeling safe :) I am super excited as Jordan is the #2 country on my bucket list.
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Day 6 - The End is Nigh
... flying home. I certainly felt much more time was needed here in Damascus and Syria.
The one thing that did surprise me was whilst souk shopping (or Shopping in the souk) i felt a very different atmosphere in comparison to Aleppo and its souks. Whilst trying to barter with some guys i found it quite difficult to interact with them as if because i was a tourist there was no deal to be made. It was certainly less accessible to gain a bargain (even though with ...
96.2% of the moon visible
... they probably got my last 2000 pounds aswell. Arrrrghhhh! We came home, searched around, came up empty handed. bah!
So we chilled out, ate some dinner, tried to shower off my frustrations. We had planned to walk around Shalan, an upscale neighbourhood where Louis could get another Kumpir potato ( a massive baked potato stuffed with cheese and mexican sauteed chicken, peppers and mushrooms, topped with hot sauce and a mustard/ketchup/mayo ...
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