The Golan
200m away, I can just about make out a Blue Star and the words ‘WELCOME TO ISRAEL,’ painted in bold, capital letters across the roof of what appears to be a gas-station type construction, here ...
Probably The Best Restaurant in The World
Ahhmaaayyzing”, Hussein exclaimed, with the unmistakably deep, throaty voice of a well-practised smoker. As he said it, the said smoke bellowing from his nostrils as if they were the windows of a house on fire. ...
Syrian Hospitality
By the end of my first evening in Aleppo, I had already met a couple of people. The first, owned a jewelry shop in the souk, and, as it turned out, during term time was ...
Shakespeare’s Aleppo
It’s been a little while since I posted anything, and you haven’t really heard much about Syria so far since I arrived just over a week ago. This is partly because there’s just so much ...
Stranded on a Grey Island
Stranded on an grey island, surrounded on all sides by dusty road, litter, bits of tyre and crystals of broken glass, I arrived in Syria. A small grove of pathetic looking trees provided the only ...
Taksi!
So now things get interesting. Just under an hour ago, me and my rucksack got shoved out of a moving train onto the platform of a train station somewhere in South Western Turkey station into ...