Byblos

Had a fieldtrip today to Byblos. Seems like the only thing we do these days is going on fieldtrips. Tomorrow we are going to a forest to teach the children climbing and rappelling or abseilen. I personally like the verb ‘klettern’, but that would be a Dutch joke. And sometime next week we have to visit a cave as well. Today we went to Byblos, a site already inhabited for a good 5,000 years, or even more. Place where the alphabet was invented apparently. It has Neolithic ruins, Persian and Assyrian stuff (although I could not locate that), an obelisk temple, a Roman nymphaeum, a Roman colonnade, Egyptian temple, Phoenician burial grounds, and the most impressive, a crusader castle from somewhere around 1140 AD. Anyway, interesting enough, so we spent the day there. It’s beautiful, right on the sea, and you can pretty much walk anywhere.