Another Middle Eastern destination rises to the occasion
Guess we don't have to sweat the loss of the Mugamma after all. Lebanese wine from--where else--the Bekaa Valley. Arthur, Anna and myself spent a bit of time in Baal'bek in 1999, just a day or so after Israeli air strikes near town. But there are incredible Greco-Roman ruins there, temples and the like. And Hezbollah's headquarters (hence the air strikes), which isn't much of a sight.
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I will continue to mention such destinations until the final version of the famed "Happy Melissa, Happy Honeymoon: Guidelines for Post-Nup Travel" have been released by my fiancee.
Another great idea. Too bad it can't be "Honeymoon in a Corsica."
Why so many entries today? Because I'm supposed to be writing for work.
How do you make links to previous posts like that?
First, find the permanent link for the post, which is what you get if you click on the time. Then, copy that URL into an anchor tag in your post.
An anchor tag looks like this:
<a href="http://whateverurl.com">link text</a>
So, if I want to make this link, I typed:
<a href="http://wjpthomson.com">this link</a>
You know where else you can get your Greco fix? Or your Roman, for that matter? Greece. Or Rome.
The list is coming. With every post like this, it is just getting longer.
Actually, many of the Greek and Roman ruins in the Middle East are in better shape--and certainly less tourist-encrusted--than those in Greece or Rome.
As a professor and renowned scholar at AUC said, if you want to see the Parthenon, go to Nashville.
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