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The missing years...
August 07, 2022 - are the ones since 2018. I have not been active in updating the blog anymore. As an interim, I wrote a short blog post a...
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A new beginning...
January 05, 2018 - For a year, this time 2018, has arrived. The year is still fresh or can one say innocent? Is it really as events have al...
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Good Bye 2017...
December 30, 2017 - Another year has passed, where did the time go. The new year is merely a day away and as always one ponders what it brin...
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Autumn has arrived...
November 13, 2017 - or the year 2017, the time has been flying like nothing, good or bad, will only transpire once it has past. Finally the...
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Summer Equinox....
June 22, 2017 - has arrived and we have halftime for the year 2017. Summer now has arrived in the eastern Levante, not that I have been...
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A taste of Siam
April 10, 2017 - I got when recently visiting Thailand and the city of Bangkok. For a long time I had deferred to fly to Thailand, as I d...
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Another one bits the dust
December 30, 2016 - well of course another year has passed really, or is biting the dust. It is late December 2016 and this year is done, mo...
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A winter in the Akamas...
December 10, 2016 - would be a nice title for a book I thought but also a good idea to implement in reality. The 'Akamas' is the most wester...
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Hot Air......
July 31, 2016 - Hot air is coming out of the blast furnace of the glass manufacturing workshop in Sarafand on the southern coast of Leba...
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The Dog days of July.....
July 09, 2016 - Have finally arrived in the Levante, high humidity and temperatures during the days and only nominal lower at night and...
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Half time....
June 04, 2016 - one could say, it is already the beginning of June 2016. Although I realize not many people really read all of this, I s...
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Happy Easter
March 24, 2016 - Wishing everyone a Happy Easter. I am amazed how fast this year is proceeding. Nearly three months are done already, and...
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The Rain is coming...
December 31, 2015 - The rain is coming at the end of the year 2015, finally or at least that what is told in the media. Sitting in my office...
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The Trucian coast.......
December 13, 2015 - The Trucian coast...
is today's area of the United Arab Emirates and also included Bahrain and Oman originally, which n...
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Flying south....
November 13, 2015 - are the flocks of storks, egrets and other migratory birds coming from the north were the Autumn has begun. They are on...
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The heat is still on......
October 10, 2015 - although it is already past beginning of October, the days are still hot and the nights are warm. Here in the ‘South’ we...
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The Swifts are gone....
August 30, 2015 - The Swifts are gone,
this morning, just suddenly they disappeared. I did not notice as first, not even yesterday but...
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After the storm....
March 05, 2015 - ...is before the storm, is after the storm and so on. In the first two months of the year 2015 there were three storms,...
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A Farewell to 2014
December 31, 2014 - and a warm welcome to 2015 from the shores of the Mediterranean. I am watching the last sunset over the sea for this yea...
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Good Bye Whiskey - A Tribute to an incredible dog.......
December 24, 2014 - Whisky is a nice drink from the Scottish Highlands, but it also the name for my dogs since the first one, who was Whiske...
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Good Bye Afghanistan.....
November 30, 2014 - but hopefully a return in the not to distant future will be possible. I must say I felt sad when I climbed back into the...
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A view of the Hindukush...
August 30, 2014 - Since a few weeks I am in Afghanistan now, so from my place I am having a view of the Hindukush. No snow yet on the dist...
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Spring is nearly over...
May 04, 2014 - in Lebanon, the weather is getting hot now. The last two months have been busy, I was sick and on leave, so much of what...
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This is the end...
December 30, 2013 - my friend.....
Well certainly 2013 is drawing to the end, here in the country it is closing with a bang, the sound of a...
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Rue Hamra.....
November 02, 2013 - Cutting through the heart of one of Beirut’s main economic and diplomatic hubs, “Rue Hamra’ or ‘Hamra Street’ is lined w...
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Time flies.....
October 04, 2013 - literally, once it has passed, one asks where did the days go. It is now two months plus that I wrote or posted any phot...
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Turtle Bay.....
July 16, 2013 - No, not the one at the East River on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but the one here in Tyre near the Christian Quart...
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'Exercise', 'Exercise', 'Exercise'
June 30, 2013 - Exercise, is good for all and sundry, including myself, if I just could do it more often:)
Now this 'Exercise' wasn't...
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Super Moon.....
June 22, 2013 - is the only thing really super right now. Electricity is bad, Internet is slow, situation in the country is not good, hu...
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Rockets on Beirut.....
June 01, 2013 - and from the south of the country onto the neighbours. That was the hot topic for the last few days Besides the material...
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Mountains and Sea
April 10, 2013 - it is very easy in this country to be at the sea and in the mountains on the same day.
Byblos is on old and ancient por...
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Dark days in December.....
December 13, 2012 - in Germany, not only weather wise. The first snow has fallen, enough to have to clean the driveway twice in the short ti...
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Summer in the city....
July 09, 2012 - oh yes, as promised the electricity issue has been bad and it has been hot. As protesters are continuing burning tires o...
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Cooling off in the Chouf Mountains
June 10, 2012 - this weekend. The weather has gotten now hot and humid here at the coast, so it was time again to go up into the mountai...
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Home
April 14, 2012 - is a place I feel more and more happy to be. It is getting more difficult each time to leave, going back to the countrie...
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History
April 13, 2012 - since some time now is the old steel mill that formed part of the heritage in Dortmund. Since the mid 1800 it was an int...
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Easter
April 09, 2012 - in Germany this year started with temperatures of just 1 degree in the morning, but a clear sunshine. If it would have b...
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