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March 21, 2006

My trips in Syria

As and when I get time I'll start writing this. For now I've put together a map! I couldn't find a good enough map that had all the places I had visited, so I drew my own (quite horrible) map that contains the real deal! More later!

Day One:

and Day Two:

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March 17, 2006

Photos from Syria -- My favourites

I've put my favourite photos from last week on a seperate set on my Flickr collection. The other bigger set is also around, and contains all the 500 odd photos I took over my time there... they're pretty cool if you have the time :)

Here's a mosaic from the smaller subset:

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March 14, 2006

Damascene hues and then some blues

I've spent the last two days exploring Damascus city, now that the teaching sessions have started. As always, there's plenty to write about, but I guess I will have to wait till I'm back in London to do that. All I can say is, if you haven't been here yet, you don't know what you're missing!

Incidentally, happy Holi! Would you believe that I bumped into not one, but TWO Indians at the Central Bank? They work with the IMF and are here on assignment, so we all got together and went to the only Indian restaurant in Damascus, and pigged out on some pretty decent Indian food. How funky is that?

Also, on a really disappointing note, I had to cancel my trip to India on short notice. This means that I have to wait till the summer to go back :( I'm really annoyed, and it kills some of the joy I had planned for this month. I'm trying hard to think of a bright side, but it's not so easy... I REALLY wanted to go back home!

More when I get back to London on Thurdsay!

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