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Fit for a King. We’d tried the door, which for some reason, was locked. We’ (Beiteddine Palace)
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So, You Know You’ve Been in Lebanon Too Long. The first time I saw the... (Acropolis - Ακρόπολη)
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Winter Is(n’t) Coming Fast Enough. I’ve had a hot, sticky morning. A spot... (Cedars of God)
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Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be. If I were forced to choose, I’d have... (Beiteddine Palace)
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The Light Fantastic. For as long as I can remember, I have had an... (Beiteddine Palace)
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Palace of Dreams. I’ve probably been to Beiteddine almost as many times as... (Beiteddine Palace)
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All Aboard? Without the railway, Sawfar may never have existed. Just a few... (Sawfar, Mont-Liban, Lebanon)
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Doors Within Doors. Rusting rebar. Flaking paint. Layers of grime. The... (Sawfar, Mont-Liban, Lebanon)
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Tickets, please. The last time that phrase was uttered in this train was... (Riyaq, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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The Man With the Best Job in the World. Meet Michel. He works in Shtaura... (Domaine Des Tourelles)
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Staff of Life? I’ve wanted to visit Niha ever since I first heard about... (Niha, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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From Here to Eternity. So there we were, out in the middle of the Beka’a... (Riyaq, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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At the end of a very, very long day, I found myself back up on the col... (Col des Cèdres)
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Next Stop, Nowhere. The Lebanese countryside is awash in reminders of the... (Majdal Balhis, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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Office Extra. In Lebanon, when you order a falafel, a manqoushe (or even... (Old Saida)
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Curtain Call. Standing backstage in the ruins of Beirut’s Grand Théâtre,... (Downtown Beirut)
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Nature Boy. They say that Sheikh el-Fadel had a way with wild animals. A... (Kawkaba Bu `Arab, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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Herbie Goes to Hasbaya. Born in 1968, I belong to the Love Bug Generation,... (Hasbaya)
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Mangetout. Goats will eat almost anything. They'll munch through thorns,... (Rashayya, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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Secret Garden. There we were, deep in Sidon’s sandstone labyrinth, when I... (Saïda, Al Janub, Lebanon)
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A Shadow of Itself. At its peak, Heliopolis of Phoenicia (for there were... (Baalbek, Lebanon)
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Aphrodite's Flow. The Ibrahim River, known in antiquity as the Adonis, was... (Afka, Mont-Liban, Lebanon)
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This Means War. So there we were, high up in the hills above Lake Qaraoun,... (Qaraaoun, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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Arriving in Style. There’s nothing like a triumphal archway (or a sweeping... (Tyre, Lebanon)
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Easier to Get There Than it Looks. From at least the 10th Century and... (Niha Fortress - قلعة نيحا)
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Blind Faith. I’ll be honest, by the time we reached the valley of Hayy al-K (Joûret et Tannoûra)
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And Then, There Was Silence. Lebanon’s largest lake, Lake Qaraoun, is... (Lake Qaraoun)
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Laid Back. Reclined all serene and elegant upon their couch, or as the... (National Museum of Beirut)
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(We) Will Survive. Although I probably risk revealing a little too much... (Abou Qamha, Al Janub, Lebanon)
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Morning, Petal. Along with ‘cherub’, ‘blossom’ and ‘dolly’ (though the... (Qaa Er Rîm, Béqaa, Lebanon)
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