Lebanese

... September 2011, finally executing a plan that had been with me since the early 1990's. Contrary to what many travelers, writers and Lebanese will make you believe, Lebanon is not a beautiful country - but it certainly is a very interesting place, with an ...

... their favorable culinary reputation. In addition to a scrumptious buffet replete with all the splendors of our previous Lebanese meals, this particular restaurant boasted a very large selection of traditional deserts. As we watched the last skiers ...

... enough Syrian pounds to get me out of the country.  From the bus station, I took a bus to Beirut. I sat next to a Lebanese family who were extremely friendly with me. They shared their food with me and made sure I was comfortable. I was most of the ...

... and/or deportation, and from a tourist’s perspective, that’s relaxing to know. For dinner, we went to the Lebanese Flower restaurant and feasted on grilled chicken and lamb, some sort of meat-filled pita, hummus, hummus with eggplant, a ...

... from our North of Qatar trip we decided it would be nice to walk "The Pearl" and find a place to eat.  We settled for Lebanese.  We had an awesome meal, with wine, yes my dears there was wine and yes Frank had to order a bottle!  It was ...

... 5mph). Overall though, (largely due to Al-Ahzar) Islamic Cairo was great. The same cannot be said however for the bad Lebanese food I ate yesterday. I ordered a chicken pita, but the pita was stuffed with sausage. It was awful. I honestly don't know what ...

... won't respect your beliefs - didn't he agree?!  I like to believe that God's a bit more generous than that. No, my Lebanese, muslim hairdresser did not agree!  But he did stop talking.  After I got out of the salon, I texted my ...

... down part of the Jordan River on 6-man rafts. Afterwards we went to Kibbutz Maryan-Baruch which is 200 yards from the Lebanese border.  The entire kibbutz was surrounded by barbed wire and watch towers along with six bomb shelters.  We even ...

... . They were kind enough to let us stay at their house (even giving us their bed!). They gave us the full Lebanese hospitality treatment, including breakfast in the morning, packed lunches, dinner at night and guided tours throughout the city. They both ...

... about us! I would describe the students as being funky, artsy kids who are really into expressing their uniqueness. We ate Lebanese pizza for lunch.  The best description is this – take 2 pieces of pizza without any sauce, stack them ...

... would spend the most of our time tryıng to explain to them that we did not wish to pay for the ride. 2 Old lebanese people stopped, Jonathan thought that they looked nice, so we got into the car, they drove us about 10kilometers and then proceded to ...

... ). The best Hommos place in Israel is Saïd. I had delicious young tuna and the best # (Moroccan) ever. I went from there north to Nahariyya and Rosh Harniqura which isn't much worth visiting it in the winter. Exciting to see the Lebanese border ...

Ruined Roman ruins, actually pretty well restored.  Quite hot, but dry heat (not humid).  Beit Shean, Tiberius, and Galilee.  Kibbutz living is not for us...to many small children who are unsupervised (not the Kibbutzim, but guest of the ...

I woke up and did half of my homework and I got changed. We went on the subway four stops. When we got off and my dad called a nice old man Antonio that owns an apartment. We walked about two blocks away from the subway. He showed us a place that owns to ...

Just found out that we Did 4 countries in 3 ...

... call it confessionalism - I call it religious checks and balances. Either way, Hezbollah cannot constitutionally control the Lebanese government. Second, as part of the confessionalist system, parties run in religiously diverse coalitions. Hezbollah has ...

... the Lebanese waiting in line behind me tsk and nudged me to hurry up. He shook his head repeating, "No space..." positioning the Lebanese entry stamp over a tiny space in the top corner of page 21, where I'd asked him to place the Lebanese entry ...

... at Beirut University and spent the summer weekends with his family in the mountains. We noticed a large number of Aussie-Lebanese holidaymakers cruising back and forth in their Range Rovers but in the winter months Bcharre becomes a ghost town save for ...

... vicinity and he would guide us there. Beyond his own reputation, the restaurant has a reputation for serving delicious home cooked Lebanese food for all. The restauranteur spotted us. "Welcome to Lebanon!" Neil walked in first, already smitten. The man ...