One of the oldest human habitations in the world: built up by the Phoenicians, visited by Alexander, Pompey Magnus, Raymond of St Gilles, Saladin and, perhaps anticlimactically, me.
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Or: Andrew's bicycle wanderings from Beirut to Venice
With apologies to Noel Coward...
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun;
The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to,
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one,
But Englishmen detest a siesta,
In the Philippines there are lovely screens,
to protect you from the glare,
In the Malay states there are hats like plates,
which the Britishers won't wear,
At twelve noon the locals swoon, and no further work is done -
But Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to,
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one,
But Englishmen detest a siesta,
In the Philippines there are lovely screens,
to protect you from the glare,
In the Malay states there are hats like plates,
which the Britishers won't wear,
At twelve noon the locals swoon, and no further work is done -
But Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
About Me
- aggdunn
- This blog is intended to stand as a record of my journey by bicycle from Beirut to Venice. I will be making my way through Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Albania and Croatia before arriving in Italy. I will try not to cheat by taking planes / trains / automobiles, but can't promise that the situation on the ground in some areas won't make biking...unwise. I'll be carrying a pair of flip-flops, lots of water, a mobile phone and a sawn-off toothbrush, and I'll see you after.
What is your view of Andrew's mental state?
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- A day spent in Nicaea
- Andrew's Nicene Creed
- And finally, the lake at Iznık
- As if by magic, the landscape shifts...
- Cimmerian steppe
- Eskisehir update
- Ottoman-style mosque in Eskisehir (and tram cables)
- Turkish bateau-mouche in Eskisehir
- Report from Emırdag
- Anatolia: plain
- Anatolia: not terribly exciting rıdıng
- Update from Eregli, Turkey
- Update on Syrıa, from Antioch
- Roman ruıns at Apamea, Syria
- The Castle of the 'Assassins', Masyaf
- Sıgns seen on the road to Palmyra...
- The Citadel Of Aleppo
- Fındıng a way from Homs To Aleppo
- Krak Des Chevaliers
- Dispatches From Palmyra
- Day 3 - Baalbek
- Columns of the Temple of Jupıter, Baalbek
- The Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek
- Andrew at Baalbek, Lebanon
- Day 2 - Jaita and Jbail
- Roman theatre at Byblos
- Andrew at Byblos
- Day 1 - Beirut
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