We just took a crazy, crazy long-weekend trip to Beirut, Lebanon, then Istanbul, Turkey. In Beirut we had a chance to meet up with our friends Prairie and Andris (who live in San Francisco, but are vacationing for 2 weeks in Lebanon) and get a taste of the Middle East from people who have lived there a little bit (Prairie in Beirut and Jordan, Andris in Jordan). We'll post some stories later, but here is a slideshow on Flickr.
To properly view the slideshow, press the button on the lower right that has four outward-facing arrows to get the photos full-screen. Then click the "show info" button on the upper right of the slideshow to get explantory titles & captions. I suggest the "slow" speed setting on the slideshow (under "options") to have enough time to read the captions. I'm trying this embedding of a Flickr slideshow instead of manually loading all the photos into the blog, because it's both faster and allows full-screen images. Let me know if it works for you.
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What were the tarp-covered buildings by the shore? (For example, in the Pigeon Rocks with flag picture foreground, and in the 2nd-to-last picture, behind the tide pools but by the beach instead of the city.)
ReplyDeleteGrrrr, Flickr! Within 24 hours of me posting this slideshow, they've changed their interface, so now I can't tell how you are supposed to see all the captions I put on the photos (in addition to the "titles"). Sorry about that - I'm working on this.
ReplyDelete@Jim: That area by Pigeon Rocks (all the pictures by the water are near there) is interesting. Up by the main road, it's high-rise fancy apartments and hotels. Hop the sidewalk railing and scramble 200 yards down to the water, however, and there are some little shacks that seems to be informal cafes, fisherman huts, and the like. I don't think any of the cafes were open when we were there, so I don't know if that was a weekday thing or just they are only sort-of in business. The fishing boats are also used to take tourists on 15 minute "cruises" around and through Pigeon Rocks. The tarps are I think crude coverings for parts of these houses and cafes, that I'm guessing were built without any sort of permitting.