Monastery for a week

Everyone, I’m off to Mar Musa again, and they have no internet access, so speak to you again in early August when I get back.
Best wishes
Daniel

Mar Musa

I spent two days earlier this week in the monastery at Marmusa. It’s an incredible place, definitely one of the “highlights” of Syria. I took a local bus to the town of Nebek, and then I got a taxi into the desert.

The taxi dropped me at the front entrance of the monastery, at the [...]

More Syria photos

My friends Tim and Sina

See lots of photos from Crac du Chevaliers, the coast of Syria and my house in Damascus on my flickr account.
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Daniel

Sex in Damascus

Sex is fascinating, of course. Here in the foreigner enclave of Bab Tooma, conversations often turn to the very different opportunities facing foreign men and foreign women. It seems “easy” for foreign women to find Syrian boyfriends – this is the story that gets told – and whole houses of European and British girls are [...]

Friendliness, cleanliness, home

I’ve been travelling this last week. I went up to Aleppo, then across to Lattakia on the coast. Lattakia seemed full of life, cafes full of old men smoking, and lower prices than Damascus. I went down to Jableh, about half an hour away, which may have been the friendliest town I have ever visited. [...]