Photos from Beirut

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.