Happy New Year to all.

We are through the first two months nearly and I have not published anything. I have been in and out of the country, to Germany and South-East Asia also.

Well events in the country very tense, more bombings, the last one on Wednesday when I returned from a photo venue in South East Asia. While approaching Beirut airport and looking out of the window I saw some black smoke rising from near the Golf Course which is close to the Iranian Embassy the old UNIFIL house and the Kuwait Embassy. My thoughts at first were that this are a lot of tires burning, wondering why and so early in the morning (09:25 Leb time). Then I thought, mmhh maybe another bomb like before and as soon after landing I had switched on my phone, there it was the message of another bombing in southern Beirut. The airport was muted, all hush hush, everyone talking to each other, the immigration officials informing the arriving Lebanese passengers that a bomb had exploded. Fast forward a few days, and another bomb has exploded, this time in the north of the country. The weather has been abnormal as well this year, here and in Germany. Here we hardly had any rain, in Germany no snow at all at home. Very unusual. Many changes at work, it only can get better. My visit to South-East Asia just confirmed that I need to complete my working live and disappear into the 'jungle'. Well sort of, I want more time for my photography.

We will have to see what happens next, anything interesting developing or happening, I will comment on it here. For now so long my friends and check out the link to the South-East Asia page above, to 'The flying fish of the Sulu Sea'. Thats all for now, bye.

Stray dog in the old city of Tyre enjoying his relative good life.