Beirut

Beirut,my homeland’s capital; I think only a minority would dislike this city :-)

Beirut has a special,eternal touch to it, no matter how difficult things get, it always attracts you back :) Beirut and its people are truly an incredible, always rising and continuing life normally..When in Beirut, don’t only visit the Downtown,but also the normal,less glamourous areas to see the real,normal,beautiful side of the city like in Rawche, Ein el Mreisse,Ramle el Baida,Hamra,Dahieh, and etc :) People are extremely friendly and warm and welcoming to visitors, the streets are always buzzing with life, Beirut is especially beautiful at night when all the lights are shining throughout the city :)

Absolutely worth visiting and staying in forever heheh ;)

Good Food, Good Markets..

Summer is wonderful for water sports. Winter is great for skiing.

Shoppin, shopping, shopping

I spend there a month with studends from Lebanon, Jordania, Egypt, Syria, ?. great people.

Beirut is back ! omg, i just love that city! i’m going there this sunday.. can’t wait to be back!

Rumor has it that despite the war, Lebanese people are still able to have a good time. Two weeks into the war, I was missing my regular hang out, Gemmayzeh, and I was missing my closest friends who have all evacuated. I went on a saturday night to one of the local pubs with a friend, we had drinks all night, people were quiet, laughing at war jokes, getting sad, then happy then angry, then swearing! It’s as if we are all manic depressive, hehe.
At one point, the bartender turned on the TV coz there was an explosion nearby, we all stared at the screen for 5 minutes then made him turn it off..reason why we left the house in the first place was to get AWAY from the TV set.
Despite the war, internal conflicts and everything in between, Beirut is still gorgeous, with all its ruins and common misconceptions… I love living here, and I’m not just saying that. Really. I could have left, but I didn’t, and I won’t :)

I think it is too late now :( There is no Beirut anymore..

it’s a wonderful place, a long cornich which you can walk there, roll blading there, very teachy bb the sun set

If I don’t get killed by islamist extremists for having blue eyes an Israeli airstrike is bound to do me in.
Beirut, I’d love to see you, but I’m afraid it’ll have to be in another lifetime.

I dont know anything about Beirut. only Time magazine featured it as a “must see” spot in the world. And its worth goin bar hoppin there. As they say… But yeah thats the fun part, it sounds exotic to me, i dunno much about it, altho maybe before i got here i would have lonely planet or some reasearch work about the whole place…