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Wow! Where are we? On holidays already? Hiking in some exotic place?
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No, this would be Rauche (West-Beirut)
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Now that I walk through my neighborhood (car still not
fixed. I know I know, I am harking on and on about it, but it’s been three
weeks now, this is beyond ridiculous), I discover all kinds of secrets; Little
alleyways that I thought were dead-end streets, quaint little stair cases and
short-cuts right through the jungle. Buildings
that I have passed at 50 km/p/h for years, turn out to be beautiful retro apartments from
the 50’s, still in their original state, when Beirut was at its best as far as architecture
was concerned, and little gardens where families gather in the afternoon to drink
tea.
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| Photography can be very suggestive . . . This girl appears to be walking in nature |
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| . . . yet we are very much in the middle of a one-million people city. |
My favorite is this large piece of fallow land, right in the
middle of town, wedged in between high-rise, main thoroughfares and million
dollar apartments. It looks like nothing. Part of it is parking lot, the rest
just lies there. It’s not a park, nor a construction site; just a piece of land.
I have been driving around this piece of land for some 20
years now. Now that I walk, I discover that I can walk right through it. I had
to go to the pet store, which is at the bottom of the hill, but I have to
circumvent this entire lot. Easily done by car; A hassle on foot, because it is
downhill and then uphill again. (The pet store is in a dead-end street at the
bottom of the hill.) And so I tried my way through it. The parking lot attendant
showed me a narrow path. It goes right through a field of (currently) pink and
white hollyhocks and bamboo. If you use your imagination, you could be hiking
through the mountains. It’s a fantastic short hike, beautiful, and for a brief
moment, you’re not in Beirut anymore.
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| Not in Beirut . . . |
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| . . . and then there's a little stair case . . and your back in the concrete jungle |
A veritable urban jungle!
5 comments:
Lovely pics and post! :)
Wat een schitterende foto's van H.
Een genot om naar te kijken vanuit Eindhoven.
Ja ja, te voet leer je "anders kijken"
Thank you guys!!
Hoe gaat het in Eindhoven? Zit er nog een trip in naar Libanon?? Wel bellen als je er bent, hoor!!
lovely pics. it reminds me that next time I come, I must try and stay a little while in Beirut rather than go straight to Zgharta or Ehden.
good work, enjoyed it
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