In my writing on my travels through Syria, I have mentioned a series of great cities and civilisations that I have been lucky enough to visit in my time there, including current cities like Damascus and Aleppo, the mighty Crac de Chevaliers, and formerly great cities that are now in ruins like Rosafa, Mari and…
I have written so far about travelling through Syria, from Damascus to Aleppo via Crac de Chevaliers, then off to the Iraqi border via the Bastion of St Simeon Stylites on the Turkish border. The next stage of our trip was to continue from the Iraqi border., and we planned to get to the ancient…
I have been writing recently about travelling through Syria, from Damascus to Aleppo via Crac de Chevaliers, and off from Aleppo to the Bastion of St Simeon on the Turkish border. Once we left Aleppo, we headed East, towards the border with Iraq, although made a few stops on the way. Our first stop was…
I have commented recently about travelling through Syria, from Damascus to Aleppo via Crac de Chevaliers. We made some trips from Aleppo, for example, up the Bastion of St Simeon Stylites on the Turkish border, one of the very many historic sites in the area. The Bastion, however, finds itself in the curious position of…
I have commented recently on visiting both Damascus and Crac de Chevaliers in Syria, and I mentioned in both that I was on my way to Aleppo at the time. Aleppo, or Haleb in Arabic, is the largest city in Syria, and like Damascus, is one of the oldest constantly inhabited places on the planet,…
I wrote yesterday about a trip to Crac de Chevaliers in Syria, and mentioned that I visited it on my way from Damascus to Aleppo. Sadly, both cities are in the news at the moment for the wrong reasons, as coverage of the conflict there is reported around the world. I was lucky enough to…
When I was a child, the name Crac des Chevaliers conjured up an image of knights and chivalry that embodied the little figures of men in chainmail with white tunics that I had at the time. As I got older, I learned more about the remarkably more complex world of the Crusades, and how the…
I blogged yesterday about some of the more interesting food items that I’ve had the pleasure of sampling – and some where I have declined the opportunity – in various parts of the world, and I made reference to staying with some Bedouin in the Syrian Desert a few years ago. I have had a…