back in december when walking through damascus i ran into this mountain bike rigged up with small combustion engine: mountain bike fitted with a combustion engine on Khalid ibn al-Walid street in central Damascus [photo taken from a different perspective here] if you ask me this is quite a marvel of engineering and although i […]

it seems that Beirut International Airport has a refreshingly evidence-based approach to flight security. When standing in line for the second security checkpoint (the one between the duty free area and the actual boarding gates) the security guards produced a half liter metal can from the backpack of the passenger two persons ahead in our […]