It’s hard to believe I’ve been in Lebanon for a week already, harder still to think of leaving on Saturday. I’ve got an evening flight to Cyprus bought and paid for, though, so I’ll be gone all too soon. What have I been doing […]

As the warm afternoon sun flooded my host’s living room yesterday, I real‎ised that I have been indoors or in a car almost continuously since Thursday evening. I am not complaining about the hospitality – far from it – but after six months on […]

‎The last half of my previous update was dropped, but the first half was repeated several times with some odd formatting.  My roaming plan has no data provision for Lebanon, so I didn’t discover the fail until I arrived at church this morning and […]

On Thursday I arrived in Tripoli much later than I’d expected. Our departure from Turkey was delayed  several hours beyond the advertised time, and don’t even mention my mistaken 5:00 AM jaunt to the port. When we eventually moored in Lebanon, there was another […]