Monthly Archives: June 2019


Didn’t Keep up with the Kardashians-But Armenia was Kool. Photography / Reviews / Travel

Day 1 Valentine’s Day, 2019 This trip over to Armenia, ancestral home of the kith and kin of Kourtney, Kendal, Kylie and Kim began with flight FZ717 to Yerevan from Terminal 2, Dubai International. Taken initially by our regular Abu Dhabi driver, we had to change to a normal taxi at a Dubai hotel because of the risk of heavy fines for a non-registered taxi...

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Lebanon: She’s a Twenty-First Century Phoenix Photography / Reviews / Travel

Cute anecdote The Beirut taxi driver, a bronzed, seventysomething old timer, face deeply etched with the wrinkles of war, squeezes my hand as we pull up outside Lebanon’s only non-military airport, saying, “Merci d’être venu au Liban et reviens vite” (thanks for coming to Lebanon and come back quickly) On the short fifteen-minute drive along the sun-kissed coast we have talked about the many changes...

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