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The day so far has been spent wandering the old city of Damascus. We’ve visited the Umayyad Mosque and walked the Hamideyeh Souk (market) as well as some general walking around the streets. We’re off to a hotel to relax by a pool later this afternoon, it gets really hot here.

Yesterday was a long driving day from Krac des Chevaliers to Palmyra and then on to Damascus but that wasn’t a good day for Keryn or I. We both had a bug of some kind and had no energy at all so spent the 2 hours at Palmyra in the truck mostly. We’re on the mend today so that’s all good. I’ve decided I like Syria, its a whole different world and the arid desert is a good place for contemplation.

Tomorrow we’re heading on a day trip to Lebanon and Beirut so that should be another interesting experience. Until next time then, see you later.

Today we crossed over from Turkey into Syria and I am writing this in an Internet cafe in the city of Aleppo. We’ve just had dinner (which was filling and tasted great and cost about 2000 Syrian pounds for 9 people, that’s around $40 US including drinks, fantastic). Tomorrow morning there is a walking tour of the city then it’s off to visit a very large Crusader era citidal. Turkey was very good, I’ll write more about that later as now I’m off with Patrick to meet the others at a posh hotel for a few drinks. See you later.

We’re currently in an Internet cafe in the town of Kas on the south coast of Turkey. We’re enjoying ourselves and have a good bunch of people to be travelling with. We’ve seen the sights of Istanbul, Gallipoli, Troy and Ephesus so far and tomorrow get to relax on a boat cruising the Med in the area. I don’t know when we’ll next be Internet enabled so we’ll sign off for now and see you all later.