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| 4th August 2005 test | luck - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place you really do have the luck of the irish. it seems that all hell breaks loose after you've left an area. be safe. |
| 2nd August 2005 Tom | Good Blog - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Dont entirely agree with some of your points, but a fascinating read all the same. thx! |
| 31st July 2005 BFL | Zaman Kotu - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Kolla Dotu Senin izin bitmedimi daha okuz insan |
| 30th July 2005 Kali | dude, good blogs - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place your blogs are always great to see and read. Full of insight and great pictures, and you travel to places no-one else would dream of going to....imagine trying to get into the u.s with all those middle east stamps in your passport (bring an extra big tube of ky for full body search! :) but anyways keep us informed of your trip..... |
| 30th July 2005 Pshhh | Meh - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place Good blog until it got all political. I don't even like Bush but I really didn't want to hear this kind of stuff on a travelblog unless the locals brought it up. Could have done without the rants. |
| 30th July 2005 Damn.. | Arabs never learn.. - From: Sabra & Shatila Arabs never learn.. I am a lebanese arab but don't like the arabs myself, I think they are the most hypocritical, lowlife, undeserved race on earth, they say one thing and do another. So I just say forget about Lebanon and the Lebanese, live your life outside Lebanon and do leave Lebanon for the arabs, yes I said arabs, because we have been so influenced by the dumb arab mentality that we have forgotten all of our former roots dating back to phoenicians till the beginning of the arab era. Live your life outside, in America, if not the UK, in Europe, just forget Lebanon.. Lebanon is for the arabs now, not for the Lebanese unfortunately |
| 30th July 2005 erika | Lots of People agree with you the world leaders are the criminals - From: A Dangerous And Uncertain Place I have been enjoying reading your blog, Your route is inspirational. I am from Scotland and currently on a world cycle tour, I have been out of contact with the news for a while but learnt recently of the london attacks and the craziness that is sweeping britain. It makes me really glad that I am in Romania heading towards Turkey rather than back home having to put up with the crazy fear factory media of Britain at the moment. Keep writing and good luck with the rest of your travel |
| 19th July 2005 A Crazy Canuk | Tolerance - From: No Greeks here... Türkiye talks the talk, but does not walk the walk. Did the Turks show the same tolerance to the Armenians, or are they showing the same tolerance to the Kurds just yesterday, but of course tolerance must be shown today for a ticket entry into the EU. But will the Kurds get there homland...I think not if Türkiye still just talks the talk of talerance. Shall we just sweep under the Turkish Carpet the "Treaty of Sevres in 1920," which the Turkish powers that be at the time agreed to and signed. This same agreement stated that the Kurds can have there own home state if they wanted. The Kurds wanted, and the US Pres.Woodrow Wilson promised this to the Kurds. But Kemal Ataturk denied the Kurds there homeland by being tolerant and breaking the treaty. The Kurds deserve a homeland too just like our Jewish brothers and sisters were given one and also our Palistinian brothers and sisters deserve one too). As far as our Greek brothers and sisters are concerned, they have resided in those parts of the mediteranian and black sea as far as one can go. No diffrence than my nation/people in North America. I am not European or from the Middle East, I am Ojibwa from the Algonquian-Wakashan stock. It is easy for leaders to mislead there people (for an eg. Hitler, Sadam Hussien, and even Bush re: arms of mass distruction). Türkiye must and need to reconcile there past history. Like Deutschland and Nippon have done. My dear Turkish brothers and sisters, Turkyie is a very big country. Please do not deny our Kurdish brothers and sisters there homeland. And if Türkiye is still in denial, than Türkiye should go please sell crazy somewhere else. |
| 8th July 2005 Patricia | Great pictures! - From: A day in the life Hadn't read your blogs for a while and today treated myself to a few hours of blog reading. You have a sensitive and astute perspective on things. It was nice to see your pictures and see your face again!! |
| 26th June 2005 erkan | fair comment - From: No Greeks here... Respond to a comment made in 1994 by a Greek person, it would be only fair to make my comment and hoping to be read by this particular moron or by any greek with the same mentality.Turkey has been home by many civilations for centuries not only for greeks and run by us for some hundreds of years.Longer than America and Australesia and so on changed to their existing name and up to thelate nineteentwentiees many greeks enjoyed the tolerance of our nations for HUNDREDS Of years unlike some continents didnt even bother showing the same respect to the cultural differences and if Iam not mistaken there isnt any native tasmanian left in Tasmania.Now as this goes on ,my answer to how I feel about converting Church to a Mosque is quite simple a lot better than converting to a Bar as you have done that in Cos island [Istankoy in Turkish]anybody would have seen this mosque is not mosque anymore A bar.So As we are proud of being Turkish we also proud of our tolerant past. |
| 15th June 2005 nanci | awesome - From: A day in the life I've been following all your blogs, they are awesome, was a little worried when you were in Sudan and hadn't left any blogs for a while. Good to see things are well. Continue to enjoy your adventure, I'll be waiting to hear more. |
| 14th June 2005 anonymous | Stupid Arab - From: Sabra & Shatila Saying Lebanon For Lebanese is the same facsist mentality which drove Nazis to say Germany for the Germans. When are Arabs ever going to learn that nationalism only leads to their descrution - - |
| 9th June 2005 anonymous | catchy - From: A day in the life was searching for a boyfriend's blog and I incdentally chanced upon your blog and great pics on Ethiopia. Wow! It's 1AM Bangkok time and I have been dying to go to bed since I got home from work today but your writing power kept me glued to my screen, eyes wide! Keep it up dude! - Brens |
| 8th June 2005 anonymous | baybora - From: A day in the life sacin boyle guzel olmus, kisayken daha seyrekti, tam tecavuzcu coskun a benziyodun :D |
| 8th June 2005 Kali | your blogs rock - From: A day in the life excellent blogs, well written and also want to do the same route next year, so am getting valuable advice .... |
| 8th June 2005 anonymous | just to say..... - From: A day in the life .....been following your travels for a while now, it's an interesting route you're planning on doing, I look forward to hearing about it, especially after your last two blogs on Sudan and Ethiopia had me glued to the moniter for a full hour! Happy travels! - Conor |
| 8th June 2005 PeteSarah | My initiation to Bedreddin - From: A day in the life Well, mr Bedreddin for what it's worth you have a new fan. Drawn to your homepage article, I was enthralled all the way to the bottom - of your article that is, and look forward to reading your other blogs. Now, to write some more of our somewhat less adventurous and articulate blog! PeteSarah |
| 8th June 2005 anonymous | - From: Of Lorries and Rebels soforlen beraber icseydin ganja - stfu |
| 7th June 2005 anonymous | - From: A day in the life Yavrum benim - baybora |
| 11th May 2005 anonymous | afrika - From: Onwards and Up the Nile sen daha elin yamyamiyla ugras 5-1 koyduk fenere, 20 sene daha beklerler Turkiye Kupasi icin - Baybora |
| 5th May 2005 anonymous | eniste nashiati - From: Onwards and Up the Nile bu arap seysi merakin bittiyse afrikaya git zenci seylerini gör .... yediin ictiin senin olsun gordukleini anlatmasanda olur "EniSten" - bEn |
| 30th April 2005 anonymous | - From: Onwards and Up the Nile israilde kirmizi degil |
| 23rd April 2005 anonymous | plucked! - From: Onwards and Up the Nile I have a few experiences like that too... you were probably lucky most of the time because you don't appear rich; if you dressed like you had money you would most likely be hassled a lot more (also depends which part of town you are in). My experience in most places shows that if some younger person (who is not a student) speaks English you should avoid them at all costs because they have learned the language ripping off visitors. Many decent people there still have the hospitality of the region, but there are those that make a living off basically robbing guests in their countries. I don't even deal with people who speak approach me speaking English anymore... I've learned my lesson. - Devrim |
| 21st April 2005 anonymous | Lebanon For Lebanese - From: Sabra & Shatila I don't mean to sound mean or anything but I have to say something very important. The people who live in Sabra and Chatila are Palestinians. They were the main cause of the civilian war in Lebanon and because of them the Lebanese people suffered. Now, the media has turned everything around in light of the Muslims and made the Lebanese Christians seem as if we were the bad guys. Take into consideration that Lebanon is an appressed country with a very corrupt government that is raping it alive for every last cent and will not stop until there is nothing left to take. So, next time if you ever think of visiting Lebanon, you should really try see two sides of the story and meet real proud Lebanese people(Christians) and I wonder what you'll think then. By the 30th of April 2005 Syrian troops are to withdraw out of Lebanon, but this does not mean much - all they are doing is going into Syria changing their army clthes and returning as civilians. In a country of a population of 3.5 million what is not included is the 650 000 Palestinians, 2 million civilian Syrians that take much of the work away from the average class Lebanese due to their very cheap labour and not to mention the 1.5 million Lebanese that have left Lebanon since the end of the civil war. People do not talk of the physical war anymore, they take of the financial war. So, in conclusion what I think the only solution to the crisis in Lebanon is if all the non Lebanese civilians leave, if the borders are secured and if a new constitution were to be writen up with free and democratic elections. To disarm terrorist organisations within Lebanon such as Hezbollah and Amal. And then finally for Lebanon and the Lebanese people try to cover the $42 billion dollar debt which the corruption of the current Lebanese government stole. God Bless Lebanon and his martyrs such as General Michael Aoun of the FPM for a free Lebanon touched by the hand of God! - Michael Farah |
| 20th April 2005 Solo | baalbeck - From: Tripoli, Hiking, Partying and Baalbeck non ho ancora avuto il privilegio e l'onore di visitare una simile meraviglia! spero un giorno i miei occhi possano posare lo sguardo su una simile opera...Degli Dei! dico questo perchè e impossibile che una mano umana possa aver compiuto una simile impresa! I Romani costruirono il tempio di Giove e vero. ma le fondamenta... appartengono a un tempo senza età... |
| 20th April 2005 anonymous | misir haritasi kirmizi degil - From: Onwards and Up the Nile bedreddincim misir haritasi bak kirmizi degil ana sayfandakki, oyle cirkin duruyo gezinin butunlugu falan yani onu soyle duzeltsinler |
| 15th April 2005 anonymous | cool stuff - From: Hello, Money! Hey. Cool Stuff! That's the Euuphrates, though, in Mardin, not the Tigris. Happy Travels :) - Winston |
| 11th April 2005 anonymous | cimrilik - From: Off to Sudan Birak cimrilii vergiiadeleri noldu?? Hepsini suriyeli kizlarami yedirdin.?? "EniSTen" - Bizzat Ben |
| 11th April 2005 anonymous | - From: Off to Sudan Sudan'a koyayim sana birsey olmasin. Yolun acik olsun. |
| 2nd April 2005 anonymous | happy birthday - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank happy birthday! - deer |
| 21st March 2005 anonymous | General comment - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank I spent some time in that area my self and encountered very similar problems of been laughed and jeered at by kids and adults alike. I had long hair and a beard, but my poor buddy had dreads and lots of piercing. How I laughed. - damien |
| 12th March 2005 anonymous | - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank I heard they eat aborted fetuses in Thailand - mr. garrison |
| 9th March 2005 anonymous | chadoor theory - From: In Defence of the Veil dzhon!! (i'm compelled to invoke your russki name just so that u might vaguely who i am..) I wanna protest your chadoor theory - about how women get to vary their lingerie (phew) and religious folks also get to simultaneously impose strictness. From the perspective of a woman, it gives women little pleasure in varying *only* their lingerie. While it may please the lucky man who peer beneath the chadoor, it does not satisfy the women fully. What women want is to be able to flaunt/ to show in front of men - strangers, if u like it. ( See why the women of aleppo were all clamoring over the foreigner YOU) Anyway, if women cant show their colors, their individuality (physical/ physiological) in front of other non-husband-men, then the whole objective of fashion is defeated. Anyway, back to my point that chadoor kills fashion/ individuality. What it does, however, according to a book on Iran i just fnished, is that women in chadoor get to 'rebel' by showing a little flash of flesh, of wispy hair strands etc. This is the rebellious and fascinating story behind chadoor - and it's not about the lingerie that hides beneath the chadoor. - en min |
| 8th March 2005 anonymous | lebanon is the best and the more beatifull cuontry in the all world,you can feel you are free and you live - From: Tripoli, Hiking, Partying and Baalbeck - anna |
| 8th March 2005 anonymous | - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank O cevabi sen yazmadiysan, 10 dolar vericem - Baybora |
| 7th March 2005 anonymous | :)) - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank Naber Leo?Yazdiklarini okumaya devam ediyoruz.Bu kadar yol tepmeye gayet iyi dayaniyorsun.Sagligina dikkat et.Sana kac kere dedik kendi fotonu da ekle diye ozledik valla. Bi de arkada$lar iletmemi istedi Israil plajlarindaki bikinili kizlari gormek istiyorlarmi$ :))Kendine iyi bak. - nebahat |
| 5th March 2005 Ali | One of the most moving diaries I've read - From: Yellow Men in Israel and the West Bank It's also incredibly well written and offers true insight into the problems of the region. Thank you for putting together such a thoughful and interesting article. |
| 22nd February 2005 anonymous | - From: Leaving the SAR Lubnandaki suikast olayinin zanlisi olarak gozaltina alinan leo@dan haber alamiyoruz. Dualarimiz onunla - ender |
| 13th February 2005 anonymous | shabbas - From: Leaving the SAR kardesim iki haftadir bi bok yazmamissin yoksa aglama duvarinda cok mu fazla zaman geciriyosun - Donnie STFU |
| 9th February 2005 anonymous | maşallah maşallah 2 - From: Leaving the SAR Ya Leo amma gezentesin be o lum gene dere tepe halindesin. Burda arkada_lar1ma gösteriyorum seni bir nevi hava at1yorum yani. sen anlatt1kça biz de varm1_ kadar oluyoruz oturdu unuz yerden. izlemeye devam edece iz de arada kendi fotonu da koy da gül sakallar1n1 ( ke_ke yüzünü diyebilseydim) görelim :)) Hadi Allah ayaklar1na derman versin - nebahat |
| 5th February 2005 anonymous | - From: Leaving the SAR kes o i renç sakallar1 kim bu istanbul anadolu yakas1ndan bir tost karde_im tost neli ka_arl1m1? - last of the Ekol |
| 30th January 2005 anonymous | - From: Leaving the SAR gercekten daha once de dedigim gibi "it's better with the faces".. yani insanlari gostermedikten sonra tas duvar yol toprak su kopru baraj nereye kadar? oralari oralari yapan sey o insanlar ne de olsa.. bu nedenle iste bu defa blog'unuzu daha bi keyifle okuduk; heyecanla devamini beklemekteyiz..bi de biliyoruz ucuncu dunya ulkelerinde zor oluyodur ama daha fazla fotografiniza ulasma sansimiz var mi? ("hatunlar ve teknoloji" yorumunu aklimizdan bile gecirmeyelim pls! :) ) istanbul anadolu yakasindan sevgiler, saygilar, selamlar.. - istanbuldan bi tost :) |
| 30th January 2005 anonymous | fotoo - From: The good life Abim insan o güzel ortam1n o güzel k1zlar1n hatunun falan bi foto raf1n1 çeker hayret bi_ey yav. yaz i_te oratm güzel hatunlar güzel. ben de yazar1m nolcek nerden bilelim atmad1 1n1? delil isytiyorum delil :) neyse hadi sana iyi gezmeler - izzet |
| 29th January 2005 Nomadic Revolution | Tatoos - From: Leaving the SAR Interesting about the tatoos; it's taboo in some cultures and others it's quite common. The Berber women of Morocco have a tatoo running from their lower lip down to their chin. Hadi bakalim; Bosra'ya koyayim sana birsey olmasin. DL :) |
| 5th January 2005 anonymous | its mothers day - From: Sabra & Shatila hadi hadi demiyorsunki ben aslinda gitmedim, uyduruyorum yazdiklarimi ondan resim koyamadim nerden bilecegiz gittigini? bende istersen buna benzer bisey yazarim - broken glass |
| 3rd January 2005 bedreddin | I'm freebee - From: The Syrian Hinterland right... |
| 28th December 2004 anonymous | YOUR FREEBEE! - From: The Syrian Hinterland I guess that could be considered Kool. Next time somebody breaks into your house and steals YOUR identity don't get upset Mr. Your acknowledging the fact you are a rip off artist suggests you should stay home and play with ripped off music specials. PS How do you earn your living or does Mommy and Daddy sort of pay your way? Tsk Tsk - TRAVELGUY |
| 26th December 2004 anonymous | it's mothers day - From: Syria, East vs West OTOH in ne anlama geldigini merak ediyodum, ve simdi cozdum, Orospu Timsah Oglanlar Havzasi yanilmissam duzeltiniz |
| 25th December 2004 bedreddin | Christmas - From: Syria, East vs West Just a quick note to say that Christmas was fairly anticlimactic (possibly due to the rain), and my plans for par-tay'ing fell through miserably. OTOH I got to attend/crash a Syrian/Maronite wedding and Midnight Mass at a "Latin" church (naturally in Arabic lightly sprinkled with Latin) which made for an interesting experience. |
| 21st December 2004 anonymous | - From: In Defence of the Veil kocum, resimsiz bir blog gogussuz bir kadin gibidir |
