Sofitel Le Gabriel Beyrouth
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Arrival in Beirut
Long day of travel, starting from Chicago yesterday afternoon, and connecting through Frankfurt. There is a very strict rule that you cannot have a stamp in your passport from Israel if you are going to come to Lebanon. My very thick passport with tons of extra visa pages is laboriously examined as I check in for my flight to Beirut from Frankfurt …
Farewell to Lebanon
Today is entirely free for people to do as they please. We had been hoping for beach weather, but no such luck. The internet at the hotel is out this morning, so I eat an early breakfast and rush down to the FedEx store to post last night's blog, and to catch up on emails. When I return to the hotel several hours later, the thunder and rain begin …
The one where I was busy
... that class last week and had found it really difficult but by mostly copying others I managed. It was a media text translation class and the worst part was when they just had open discussion about the Syrian conflict in Arabic because I didn't know any political or conflict vocab, and also couldn't formulate an opinion on the matter as well as they could. This was another example of frustrating politics students only caring about the ME and Arabic for its political controversies ...
(1) Beirut Today
... newest SUVs and the most expensive Jaguars and Audis, to the equivalent of Cuba’s 1960’s American cars, but then of European stock. Especially BMWs and Mercedes must have been popular early on, and many an old model can be seen, mostly battered from years of traffic participation, but still in working order. Oh, and you need to know which traffic lights can be ignored whilst others cannot, and there are some that can be ignored, but not ...
Lebanon
... like Mr. Charles Bronson too. I think maybe I can have an album one day like Mr. Freddy." He pulled out some kind of twangy mouth-piece type of instrument and twanged away. He was showing us that his talents went beyond just vocals. He could play the twangy mouth-piece and sing and then put out an album.
He parked outside our hotel in Hamra. I looked at Neil. "Man, I'm giving him the twenty dollars. He earned it with that ...
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- Fitness/Health center