Subject: Post: Having rested in the hotel for a while, unfortunately without AC in our room anymore, we dragged our asses one floor down to the lobby room of the hotel, and met a Swiss guy in there. A few beers, and we were already heading out of the hotel to the city.. :)We walked down to the metal bar we had been earlier, which not so surprisingly was totally empty once again. The bartender J.P was just about to finish his work, so together we left the place and took a ride on his car to a restaurant nearby for some food and chatting.Back in the hotel now, this exactly wasn't a wild night but we didn't even expect it to be. In fact, we were both pretty tired and not really feeling like going partying or anything like that today. Tomorrow it is Friday, and that might be a different story..Our next destination will be Jordan, and we are scheduled to leave there on Saturday. Going there overland would be a major pain in the ass, as Don would need to get an another Syrian visa on the border and wait for another 5-6 hours there, so we have been playing around with an idea of taking a flight to Amman, Jordan from here. It's only 40 minutes by plane.. Tomorrow we should get some more information on the flight prices etc, but if we get a flight for around $100 it is definitely worth doing as all the buses, taxis, border crossing etc would cost about the same, not to mention the time and annoyance..I just have to write down a couple of quotes heard from the locals that really sum up pretty much everything about Lebanon:"Talking Lebanese means mixing Arabic, French and English""We eat, we live politics in here. We still have fights, every day, everywhere""Welcome Lebanon" Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
We walked down to the metal bar we had been earlier, which not so surprisingly was totally empty once again. The bartender J.P was just about to finish his work, so together we left the place and took a ride on his car to a restaurant nearby for some food and chatting.
Back in the hotel now, this exactly wasn't a wild night but we didn't even expect it to be. In fact, we were both pretty tired and not really feeling like going partying or anything like that today. Tomorrow it is Friday, and that might be a different story..
Our next destination will be Jordan, and we are scheduled to leave there on Saturday. Going there overland would be a major pain in the ass, as Don would need to get an another Syrian visa on the border and wait for another 5-6 hours there, so we have been playing around with an idea of taking a flight to Amman, Jordan from here. It's only 40 minutes by plane.. Tomorrow we should get some more information on the flight prices etc, but if we get a flight for around $100 it is definitely worth doing as all the buses, taxis, border crossing etc would cost about the same, not to mention the time and annoyance..
I just have to write down a couple of quotes heard from the locals that really sum up pretty much everything about Lebanon:
"Talking Lebanese means mixing Arabic, French and English"
"We eat, we live politics in here. We still have fights, every day, everywhere"
"Welcome Lebanon"
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