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Travelling Curmudgeon
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Travel isn't always as magical as the internet makes it seem, but sometimes it is...

Currently in Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 🇱🇧
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When you're named after a Norse god and live with a fairly well-to-do family in a nice suburb of #Beirut, but still aren't too proud to beg once the lemongrass green #curry starts getting served...

#travel #lebanon #dogs #dinner #puppydogeyes #loki #dinnerparty #bonappetit #digitalnomad #middleeast
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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A panoramic shot of Mount Lebanon, with the Chouf Biosphere Cedars in the middle there. Unfortunately, the foreground is a bit of a mess, so best to disregard that bit and just focus on the heavenly nature in the distance...

#blueskyartshow #sky #lebanon #travel #cedars #mountains #nature #clouds
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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The view facing skyward in the entryway of Beirut's famous 'Yellow House' or 'Green Line Building', which is now the Beit Beirut arts and culture centre.

Full(ish) moon just out of view....

#blueskyartshow #sky #beirut #lebanon #architecture #museum #art #gallery #travel #streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The aforementioned old #lighthouse in #Beirut, which was originally built in the 19th century (although this incarnation is only from the early 1950s), and was decommissioned in 2003 after getting overshadowed by surrounding buildings....

#blueskyartshow #sky #lebanon #travel #streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Sunset spotted a couple days ago between ginormous luxury apartment buildings near Beirut's old lighthouse....

#blueskyartshow #sky #sunset #mediterranean #sea #beirut #lebanon #middleeast #streetphotography #trees #digitalnomad #curmudgeon #flaneur
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Some of that trademark Lebanese tongue-in-cheek, black humour at an art exhibition at Beit Beirut....

#blueskyartshow #sky #art #postcard #blackhumor #beirut #lebanon #beitbeirut #exhibition #mushroomcloud #gallery #diaspora #contemporaryart #war #middleeast #digitalnomad #curmudgeon #blast
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A mountaintop above #Batroun, where we enjoyed a lovely 4-5hr #seafood #lunch and many bottles of #Prosecco, accompanied by a nonstop soundtrack of old timey French music. Très très bien....

#blueskyartshow #sky #lebanon #mountlebanon #nature #seaview #autumn #clouds #mediterranean #digitalnomad
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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When it's still plenty warm enough to swim in early December. Shukran, climate change....

#blueskyartshow #sky #travel #lebanon #batroun #mediterranean #sea #swimming #beach #climatechange #clouds #digitalnomad #middleeast #curmudgeon #silverlinings
December 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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You'll have to use your imagination, but right when this photo was taken - at 3.45pm last Sunday - all of the #church #bells in #Lebanon were chiming simultaneously in honour of Pope Leo's arrival...

#blueskyartshow #sky #travel #beirut #popeleo #bluesky #middleeast #urban #nature #digitalnomad
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Unfortunately, there wasn't anyone selling Pope Leo merch in Beirut - I'd have gladly purchased a 'Blessed are the Peacemakers' poster - but at least you could get Lebanese flags and scarves....

#travel #beirut #lebanon #popeleo #flags #sunset #streetphotography #merch #buylocal #streetvendor
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Time flies when you're having fun. And the Pope's visit to Lebanon is already over. Until next time, Leo....

#travel #beirut #lebanon #popeleo #popeleoXIV #streetphotography #peace #mass #digitalnomad #middleeast #fun #vatican #catholic #christian #curmudgeon
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Pope Leo XIV's motorcade passes by on the way to Martyrs' Square in Beirut yesterday afternoon - he's in the white SUV around the 45 second mark...

#travel #beirut #lebanon #popeleo #popeleoXIV #christians #catholics #church #motorcade #papeleon #middleeast #vatican
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Another sunset shot from the Chouf - this one with some recently harvested 300-year-old olive trees in the foreground....

#blueskyartshow #warmth #lebanon #chouf #middleeast #mountlebanon #sunset #mountains #nature #clouds #travel #digitalnomad #villagelife #idyllic #autumn #olives #olivetrees
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Mount Lebanon pine tree, close up sunset glamour shot....

#blueskyartshow #warmth #lebanon #mountlebanon #chouf #pinetree #pine #nature #middleeast #green #sunset #digitalnomad #curmudgeon #rooftop
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Autumn sunset in the Chouf....

#blueskyartshow #warmth #lebanon #chouf #middleeast #mountlebanon #sunset #mountains #pine #nature #clouds #travel #digitalnomad #curmudgeon #villagelife #idyllic #autumn
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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After lunch vibes....

#blueskyartshow #warmth #lebanon #cedars #chouf #mountlebanon #cat #cats #softy #naptime #siesta #persiancarpet #autumn #travel #digitalnomad #curmudgeon
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Morning coffee in Beirut....

#blueskyartshow #warmth #beirut #lebanon #coffee #arabiccoffee #graffiti #streetart #art #streetphotography #urban #travel #middleeast #flaneur #curmudgeon #digitalnomad #morning
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God" - Matthew 5:9

#popeleo #popeleoXIV #lebanon #beirut #travel #streetphotography #middleeast #vatican #arabic #flaneur #bible #biblequotes #blessed #peacemakers #christian #holyland #curmudgeon
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Lebanon has its (many, many) problems, but a dearth of fresh, cheap #coriander isn't one of them. A nice change after having no luck finding the stuff in #Maribor....

#travel #lebanon #beirut #farmersmarket #fresh #buylocal #kitchen #lebanesefood #curmudgeon #levant #middleeast #homecooking
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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When your first proper meal in #Lebanon is coincidentally exactly the same as your second to last proper meal in #Europe, only home-cooked with potato purée and carrots rather than pommes frites....

#travel #beirut #wienerschnitzel #homecooked #buylocal #lunch #digitalnomad #healthy #foodie
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Not the best view I've ever had from my bedroom terrace, but also not the worst....

#travel #beirut #lebanon #middleeast #levant #roomwithaview #parkinglot #streetphotography #digitalnomad #curmudgeon
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Morning coffee with the Bougainvillea....

#travel #beirut #lebanon #coffee #morning #plants #sunrise #flowers #digitalnomad #curmudgeon
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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No matter where you go in the world, you can't escape Seinfeld references....

#blueskyartshow #small #travel #beirut #lebanon #pony #ponies #seinfeld #beirutponyclub #streetphotography #signs #flaneur #curmudgeon #digitalnomadlife #americanculture #hegemony #doors
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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First Beirut kitten sighting....

#blueskyartshow #small #beirut #badaro #lebanon #kitten #cat #streetphotography #cute #travel #digitalnomad #middleeast #curmudgeon #flaneur #meow
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Even elsewhere in #Europe, there can't be too many road signs with directions to five different countries on them, like this one in #Graz....

#blueskyartshow #small #travel #austria #streetphotography #signs #motorway #curmudgeon #bus #ontheroad #autumn
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM