I came alone in Beirut for work, taking a night flight 1:00 am from wonderfull Athens airport, runway full of green, red and yellow lights ar night. I was very anxious to check that Middle east AIR , and landscape was as what I had seen on TV for Beirut. But slightly, when in centre of city, I was thinking I was in any European city centre, but more hardcore on stone and modern constructions. Construction is a GREAT business here, since war demolitions are being covered soon by great tall modern buildings of wealth. Nice in photos, heartless as a feeling of total stone. What isolated me, was the fact of armied men in corners of the centre of the city. Military nation I said, but it serves some purpose, and probably is for good.
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