Soap and Crusaders

We visited a soap museum in Saida (Sidon) today. It’s actually an old soap factory of the Audi family (Raymond Audi has one of the biggest banks in Beirut, son Pierre is the artistic director of the Netherlands Opera) in the old souq. They have restored it, and it is done quite neat. Soap making was big business here at one time. There's a Khan as-Saboun (soap market) in Tripoli as well. Adrian and Obi got guns, and spend the rest of the time playing James Bond and Mr. Bean. I doubt they saw anything of the entire museum. We went with a little boy of a friend of Cecile. His name was Alexander. He was 10, behaved as if he was 65. I was quite pleased with Adrian’s immature behavior. We visited the Crusader Castle as well.