Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
La Vie de Chateau (2)
Yesterday started as well as the day before had finished when we were served a great breakfast of freshly backed croissants, chocolate croissants and baguettes with some cheese, butter and jam (As we had agreed on with the chef the night before). The idea was actually to stay one more night at the hotel after Mr [...]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
La Vie de Chateau
After Sunday evening’s splurge, we had decided to go back to our normal travel style. The plan was to travel to Baalbek to see the ruins of the ancient Roman city. We hoped on one of the service minibus to Baalbek and were there around 2 hours later. We only planned to stay one night in [...]
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Diner de Classe
While I usually kind of dread dinning out by myself preferring take out in these occasions, one of the advantages of traveling with someone is that eating out becomes a cool proposition. Since Rod and I share a liking for good food and good wine (Rod being better at wine appreciation than me actually!), we decided to try one [...]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2006
My One-Minute of Fame?
I traveled from Damascus (Syria) to Beirut (Lebanon) today. The trip went fine with no incidents at the borders. Of course, the guy that changed my Syrian pounds to Lebanese pounds clearly tried to rip me off badly but my math skills did not let me down and I was able to get a better rate [...]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
The language of Jesus
Today, I was planning on visiting the museum here in Damascus but my plans changed a bit when Ahmed, the son of the hotel owner, offered to take Gabija (A Lithuanian girl staying at the same hotel) and me to his favorite place around Damascus named Maaloula. Since it is always nice to have someone taking you [...]
