Date: 13 August 2010 21:22:26
After a few days visiting friends in northern Germany, then heading off to, after 9 years waiting!, see the Oberammergau Passion Play, I will head off to Syria and Lebanon for 3 weeks from early October. Through the, alebit 1990s, entertaining and informative Cadogan Guide to Syria & Lebanon by Michael Haag, a quick look through the not-as-entertaining-or-humorous, though more up-to-date and useful travel-wise, Lonely Planet Guide to Syria & Lebanon, to John at Notes from a Common-place Book's 2008 journey through the Middle East [and he is currently writing on his trip to Greece and the Balkans -- if you love travel you should read his posts: he is a traveller in the true sense and writes most wonderfully and engagingly] and a few internet searches, to the imminent arrival from the wondrous Book Depository of Ross Burns' Monuments of Syria and Footprint's Syria Handbook by Jessica Lee, I have an idea of what I want to see and how to get there. Very much looking forward to it.
Life has been good, thanks be to God: busy, rather busy, but good. While there have been a few hiccoughs, they have been manageable; and there have been plenty of blessings along the way too which I hope to share as time allows.
I do pray all is well with all of you; and for those of you with blogs I hope, next week, to be able to catch up on all that is happening in your world.