Arrival in Beirut, Lebanon
Rogers, Arkansas to Cincinnati to Paris to Beirut. It was my first time flying though multiple time zones in years, and so my first experience of jet lag in what seems like forever. It was a necessary...
View ArticleThe Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon — an Amazing Place
Before I headed to the Middle East, I tweeted that I was going during a few of the travel talk conversations I have there during the week. In typical Twitter-blogger fashion, someone replied...
View ArticleDomaine des Tourelles: Lebanon does Wine?? Why yes it does – and quite well.
As a wine lover, I try to take every opportunity to try local wines anywhere I travel. I bicycled around some wine districts in New Zealand sampling some of their excellent wines. I partook in Chile...
View ArticleBaalbek, Lebanon: a Photo Journal
Baalbek = middle right Baalbek is close to the northernmost part of the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon, an area that is probably most recognizable to American readers vaguely as one of the locations of...
View ArticleMore of the Wines of Lebanon
While I was in Lebanon during the spring, I had a chance to spend a few days in the Beqaa Valley, which holds the treasure of the ruins of Baalbek at its northern end, but holds its other treasure to...
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