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Photo Album
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Syria or:
The (training) road to Damascus
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| In January 2003, I
received a request from the Thomson Foundation to do some lighting training in Damascus, Syria.
Damascus is the worlds oldest continuously occupied city some 120
kilometres east from the Mediterranean and about 600 metres above sea
level.
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| There are some pictures of the lighting training here. |
| Whilst there, I happily took up the role of tourist for
a day or two. I was taken to see some of the most important historical
sights within easy reach of the city. Damascus itself is a big bustling
city of some 6 million people with traffic to match. |
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It was a bitterly cold morning at Heathrow
following the day that had recorded the heaviest snowfall for many years.
Two inches! Many places would call that a dusting, but it caused huge
disruption in London town. |
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There was evidence of it on the suburbs as we
over flew London. |
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But rather more in Germany |
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Our flight was via Munich, and it was
after dark when we touched down in Damascus |
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Hi Mike,
I couldn't resist emailing you to tell that i really
enjoyed the photos you took while you were in Syria and the way you
explained it, it gave an idea on what its like there because am going
there next month to visit some relatives.
am going from New Zealand and i will visit all the places
you went to, its look really nice.
hopefully i will have a nice time over there.
thanks for the lovely site,
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Nahrain |
Dear Mike
I would like to thank
you for your pictures and kind comments about Syria, it is so unfortunate
to live in world where it is fashionable to hate Muslims Arabs, and
Syrians, but at the same time it is so refreshing to find out that there
are still reasonable people who did not bow to the pressure of hate that
sweeping the world from both sides, thanks again and I invite to see some
of the pictures I took in Syria, it goes to prove that even though we are
from 2 different cultures. When it comes to beauty we may have similar
eyes
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Mutaz Chikakly |
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