Tripoli Lebanon After the previous day’s drive from Beirut, plan for today was to explore Tripoli. We got up and checked the American Express credit card situation; still no unknown charges, and still no bill presented from Babar restaurant. At this point, we decided to keep monitoring regularly. We then went off to check out…
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Beirut to Tripoli The next day, woke up early, checked the Amex CC, and still no unknown charges, nor any payment to Babar. Strange. Had breakfast, checked out of the hotel, and then took an Uber to Rafik Hariri International airport, where I had booked a Budget car for our trip through Lebanon. Since it…
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More Beirut Lebanon After a good night’s rest, woke up the next day and first checked my Amex account online since I had misplaced my Amex card the previous day. There was still no unknown/fraudulent charges, nor was there any charge from Babar restaurant. Called Babar, and was again told to come in at noon…
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Beirut Lebanon. After Lisbon and Portugal, since we were already in Europe, we thought we would check out a more off-the-beaten -path place; and we ended picking Lebanon. Why Lebanon? Why not? It is in the Levant (a historical term for Lebanon, Palestine (includes Israel), Syria, Jordan); where there is a lot of history of…
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This is the 2nd blogpost on Lisbon Portugal; the previous one is at City of 7 hills After my camera died, I had to figure out how to replace it for the remaining duration of our trip; which was a few more days in Lisbon Portugal, followed by 2 weeks in Lebanon. I did not…
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