Gazadiary2dec13

Gazadiary3Jan10

Gazadiary4Jan10

First morning in Lebanon. Nice background sounds of birds chirruping, sadly does not include the sound of the guy doing trumpet practice at about 11.30pm last night.

Beirutdiary18Jan15

Travelled to Chekka today in northern Lebanon.

BeirutDiary23Jan

Wandering around Beirut. What do you call those stacks of rocks that are formed by the sea eroding cliffs? Couldn't think of the word.

BeirutDiary25Jan

I got the background of Baalbek completely confused. It's Roman not Greek and is dedicated to Jupiter/Baal, Venus and Bacchus. Apparently a real party town then in ancient Rome. According to Wikipedia part of the never-completed construction was carried out during the reign of Philip the Arab, which is not a very convincing name if you ask me.

JJBulstrode