Archive for the 'Traveling' category

Tablan Street in Homs

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

The Hollywood Boulevard from Homs is Tablan Street. Somehow.

Most important street in Homs. In the evening and night it is crowded with niswuaanjiii katirran (insider)

Tasty stuff.

Viva la revolution *uh oh*

Ché is also famous in Syria

Do you have the Apple stuff?

This flags are becoming more and more famous in middle east, guess why???

not only Fashion stores demonstrating their loyalitiy to the Hisbollah…

(at this time the Assault on Libanon took place)

Naswuanjii all along the street of tablan

Exploring Middle East #1

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

I decided to name this new child like this, because the photos likely show different places and occasions. Therefore finding a right header won’t sqeeze my tortured brain too much. Anyway have fun with a couple of interesting pictures.

 

This photo of an gas-station near Latakkia is a legendary one, because it contains so much Syria. Notice the “beware of fire” symbol and the service man, who is fueling our service bus, while smoking gently a cigarette. You rarely witness a situation like this one in Germany.

Nothing special to say about this one. Just the typical set of colors you will encounter, when travelling through Syria. Blue Sky, sand-colored stones and houses.

This photo has been shoot, while travelling on the Homs-Damascus Road. You are seeing محردة (Maharda - thanks to Aloshi). A small settlement in the north of Hama. I also have very interesting photos from Hama. I will post it soon.

Some sort of refinery or factory. I am not sure because I was not the one who took this picture.

This could be Homs or Aleppo. Very green by the way. More frequently seen in the western area of Syria.

It writes ….Haleb (حلب )medina (مدينة)…. which means the …city of Aleppo… this is all I can read for now.

This architecture most likely something the french colonizers brought to Syria once. I have no idea I´m just guessing.

Using a taxi in Aleppo. Nice weather all the time.

The students from Egypt liked dance. Very nice fellows.

The Trip To Lattakia Beach

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

I decided to make some photo series of my worthiest experiences in Syria. It would be a waste, If I don´t do it. So I hope you´ll like it even though it is a bit off-topic regarding this blog beeing a guitar blog.

The Boussaa-Cigarette Man, he was one of our travel guides. The old mercedes-bus is a remarkable one. You noticed its italic feature? 

The usual trashy artificial flowers. You´ll find things like these in almost every bus.

An elder womanm who is preparing chubz for us in the traditional way. Very tasty.

 And here the woman again, and the guy in the red t-shirt is one of my best friends on planet earth.

He is an official translator for the Syrian football team Al-Karameh.

 

Very cheap and tasty. S3atar with bread. In arabic: صعتر بال خبز

This mountain is very close to the border of Turkey in the north of Syria, a pretty fancy view.

 

Arrival djaiyed

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

Huhu

Ich sitz grad bei meinem Doktor in einer Technikuebung ueber Telekommunikationstechnik, und habe mir diesen djihas kompjutar ergattern koennen. Mein erster Eindruck von Syrien und den Menschen ist sehr positiv, ich werde spaeter mehr berichten, lustig fand ich nur das mein Chef sehr erstaunt darueber war dass ich gar kein IT Spezialist bin, sondern einer von der Oekonomischen Fakultaet…

Bye
PAul

Internship in Syria

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Mar7aba!!!

I ´m going to leave Germany for 2 month. My destination will be Syria. It´s a great oppurtunity to learn about foreign culture and language. I´m very excited about it. I hope to meet many nice people and some opportunities to make some musique to learn about oriental music.

I will post news as soon as possible.

ma as-salama