Local beer served with salted pumpkin seeds and roasted peanuts
Warm, fresh from the oven pita bread, hummus and fresh vegetables
Eggplant and beef shish kabob
Rose, lemon and mint sorbets
Narghileh - lots of people, guys and girls, were smoking these on the sidewalk cafes in Solidere while watching the World Cup. All the cafes, bars and restaurants have many flatscreens set up inside and outside so people can watch the matches. We saw USA vs. England last night and caught most of Ghana vs. Serbia today.
Rose flavored tobacco and mint tea. I'm not a smoker but I got all caught up in this thing, though I posted about hookahs a couple of years ago when there was a place downtown that had them.
A sheik and his narghileh-smoking friend? bodyguard?
4 comments:
Looks like you're having fun! (:
olivia - I am. It has been very interesting being in Beirut. A different world for sure but in a good way!
Michelle, back in the day, Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle east -- back before the war. My husband was always telling me he would have loved to have gone. Your pictures are really inviting and I can imagine you are experiencing an entirely different reality there!
Buon Vacanza!!
Diana, this trip has been amazing and I am so glad I was able to come to Beirut. It's unbelievable to be in a place that has seen so much strife and that somehow continues on seemingly undaunted. It's an amazing city and I am definitely and happily experiencing a different reality!
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