Beirut
2009-09-23, Beirut, Lebanon. By: frankieboy

20/9/2009 Ever since I can remember reading the news there has been something about Lebanon written. The civil war, war with Israel, occupation by Syria, displaced Palestinians and terrorist attack...

Liban
2002-12-28, Beirut, Lebanon. By: deldib

The pride and joy of the Middle East, Beirut is a great place in the heart of all that is hectic. There are some gorgeous places to go skiing up at the mountains and there is also a place called je3ey...

Recap Part 1
2006-07-19, Beirut, Lebanon. By: downisup

I just want to kind of fill-in a lot of the blanks and summarize what I did on my trip as I stated I would earlier. So, here I go. I started in Budapest and this city really impressed me. And while...

The Summer Term
2006-06-22, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

It has been a long term. Actually, it’s been several weeks shorter than the other two but the volume of work we’ve done is probably more. I realised that I’d better speed up doing the work to finish t...

Start of Spring Term
2006-04-24, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

Term starts tomorrow. The problem with holidays is that you get too used to them and you begin to get to the point where you just can’t imagine what it was like to work. I’m sort of like that now, but...

Spring arrives in Lebanon
2006-03-25, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

It’s a lovely British summer’s day. The temperature is 26°C. It’s only the end of March too! About 3 weeks ago, we had a similar warm day and 2 days later the school was closed for 2 days because of a...

5 months gone!
2006-02-20, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

I’ve been in Lebanon for 5 months now. It’s funny how you can get used to new things and then they seem totally normal. I spent 21 years living in the UK and I didn’t think it would be easy to adapt t...

School closure
2005-01-18, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

Just a quick note to say I've put some pictures up that were taken during the Eid Al Adha holiday. School is closed today because of snow! Maybe it will be closed tomorrow too if the slush freezes up ...

Christmas in a mainly Islamic country
2005-12-26, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

Hello again, And happy Christmas to you all! (I will also say Happy New Year at this point as well as it will save me doing it separately next week). Before I give you the details of the last month o...

Independance Day
2005-11-21, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

Hello, I have been in Lebanon for 2 months now, give or take a day, and my application for a 1 year residency has been submitted. I had to go and sign some official papers saying I’d be peaceful an...

First update
2005-10-24, Beirut, Lebanon. By: pete_k

Hello all, I’m sorry that it’s taken so long for me to send one of these things out. We’ve only just re-established an internet connection on a computer for browsing the internet – so I couldn’t re...

The Start of a Five Week (Work) Journey
2005-09-12, Beirut, Lebanon. By: Malik

So in two weeks I'm off to the Middle East on a working trip. Along the way I'll visit Beirut, Oman, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece and Egypt. This will be a sort...

Lebanon
2001-12-12, Baalbek, Lebanon. By: zerega

Pictures from Lebanon from Dec. 2001. Just after 9-11 there were'nt any tourists in this area, so we had all sightseeing spot for ourselves. This must be like travelling in the good old days.