Archive for August, 2010

Favorite bits from Lebanon: Beirut! It’s amazing, gorgeous, tragic, and fucking hardcore. Swaths of it are still annihilated from the civil war. You’ll have a shelled-out building next to a pile of rubble next to a fancy café next to an under-construction luxury condo hi-rise next to a crater next to an adorable little restaurant,...
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More later, but we’re recently back from a 2-week blitz of Jordan, Syria & Lebanon. Lovely people, amazing food, stunning ruins, zany border crossings, the occasionally overheard bit of distant gunfire, the faded glory of Beirut–all very worth doing, provided you don’t have an Israeli stamp on your passport.
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