Syrian make-up & underwear vendors, Aleppo cherry kebab, dancing through traffic & the divisiveness of Iran opinions... March 7th 2011 Over the last few afternoons in Aleppo, I've whiled away a couple of hours in a lovely coffeeshop/restaurant called Ahlildar. It has an unbeatable location in an elegant renovated traditional Arabic courtyard house, with an upstairs terrace overlooking the entrance/courtyard/garden of the Great Mosque, and the main street of the Old City leading up to the citadel standing high on hill in the near ... read more
Middle East » Syria » North » Aleppo Following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Syria was administered by the French until independence in 1946. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel. Syrian troops - stationed in Lebanon since 1976 in ... ... read more
I'm Sharni, a 26 y.o. Australian from Melbourne. My goal is to never stop learning from as many people as I can from all the countries I hope to explore one day. If I can be free to travel, laugh, learn, joke and share with people from many different cultures, viewpoints and backgrounds for the rest of my life, that will make me a happy woman :-)
"All we have to do to be free is to drop the anxieties and tools of control, and set out into the world..."
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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