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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10
On phone to Syrian British council trying to speak french,hmm. http://twitpic.com/4jbpw #
Shukran,merci,thank u;stuttering amongst the suave Lebanese.espresso-fueled haggling for ride to Damasc. #
@Tom_Schuyler should I ask? Warlock?vinegar?it’s rose water & arak over here. in reply to Tom_Schuyler #
Arrived in Damascus with help from my friends Wissam and Sahil.Shukran! Staying in Abu Rammeh.Excited to hear Gottemoeller… »
Quiet Sunday
Sunday – nearly all the shops are shut. Walk down the Corniche – the road just outside the apt block I’m staying in. Loads of people out – jogging, power walking or just chatting in groups. People set up on the side-walk and on the ‘beach’ (rocks) with plastic chairs, shisha and tea.
Fishermen –… »
New to Beirut
My driver Bachir can speak English (as well as several other languages) and told me he left Beirut during the civil war but that he’d lost his money on a gamble in Europe. Oh? A restaurant that went belly up? A flaky European girl? No gambling, it had all gone on gambling. … »
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03
Have a bad feeling about What’s going to happen in Sri lanka. LTTE surrender laughed off by the government… #
Raining in Beirut. Need to eat, #
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