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My last official trip to Lebanon began by having dinner with CAO Lisa at Beled in Jounieh
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We arrived in time for sunset over the Mediterranean
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That evening I lost a favorite earring -- happily, it was found the next day
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We had meze, the usuals plus a beet & orange salad
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Remarkably, Beled, my last restaurant in Lebanon, was next door to my first restaurant in Lebanon
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Moon over Jounieh
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Love at first _____ she said, trying to get her team mate to say 'sight.' Alas, it didn't work.
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Reviewing vocabulary with the Aamchit Access class before reading them 'The Giving Tree'
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Four fun faces
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Always interesting to see which books are selected and which are not
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The best came last -- she sang Fairouz beautifully
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And then he performed -- also well, but I didn't know the song
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How I wish we could all go back to an Ottoman attitude vis a vis aesthetics
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Beirut buildings
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Lebanon is quite the crowded place
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Confirmation that we are indeed passing through Deir El-Qamar
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Deir el Qamar
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In Irfane with our Druze colleagues
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CAO Lisa admiring the Irfane Access class
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Explaining their community service project called Zero Waste
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With the impressive Access students of Irfane
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Beit ad-Din Palace glimpsed as we sailed by
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Headquarters of the Prime Minister, the Grand Serail, in the background
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The Garden of Forgiveness standing along the Lebanese Civil War Green Line mixes ruins of at least 15 civilizations
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Lebanon is Life -- Hariri party slogan
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Reconstructing downtown Beirut -- here in Mar Nicolas I think
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Stuck in traffic by the port of Beirut, I take an in-focus photo
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Even time to look back at a party getting set up on a hotel rooftop
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Our first stop in Batroun, we find a man sitting in the doorway of St Stephen's
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I climb up an old staircase and find Batroun port below
