Lebanon

Well the flight over was uneventful - just very long. Turkish airlines turned out to be excellent - the plane was on a par with Cathay Pacific, and the food was better.

Beirut seems nice. So far I have really only seen the hotel, and the main street that it is on. I arrived at the hotel about 1230 last night, so I have only had about an hour to walk up and down and look at the shops. Starbucks, Gloria Jean's, and a couple of other coffee places. All sandwiched between a hundred shoe -shops, tailors, and brand-name clothing shops including H&M. The roads and footpaths are a little closer to parts of India, or Athens, but there are a fair number of nice cars embedded in the traffic jam that covers the main road.

I am at the gym right now, in an attempt to stay awake until closer to 10pm (it is about 8:30 now). Walking on the treadmill and trying to write this email post without too many spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. The gym itself is really nice, with lots of treadmills, cross trainers, and bikes (both upright and reclining). Lots = 20 treadmills. All facing a wall with 17 huge flatscreen tvs. A bit different to what I assumed I would find.

Well, almost done my 30 minutes so I need to move on to weights.