I live in Port Glasgow, which has “Robert Street”, Scotland’s Chernobyl. If you’ve not seen the videos, give it a google hahaha
Definitely worth it, once the political situation calms down again. The danger now is the airport being shut down and Iran and Israel using the country as a proxy battlefield, as per usual. The coastline is incredible. I was there last six years ago for four days (our annual holiday together!) and had to entertain myself whilst my wife was lecturing, so drove and checked out beach restaurants/bars/hotels - sort of a relaxed French atmosphere. It had been a period of calm, so wasn't dangerous and quite a lot of Italians and French holidaying there. The militias are supposed to be in the hilly, grape growing regions and this is where Israel shells every time it kicks off, but I found this to be the friendliest area - restaurant owners topping up your drinks on the house and sending out extra food/aperitifs, end up chatting with English-speaking locals about rugby league etc. There's a town/city called Byblos that you can get a 45 minute taxi from Beirut to, that is worth half a day visit, it's supposedly the oldest city in the world.. good to walk around and then get a pavement table in a cafe and drink coffee and people watch for an hour. You can see most of the country in five days.. not cheap though. The only issues you might have are if you're averse to cigarette smoke, meals that last until the early hours of the morning and obviously and controversially for any holiday destination, if you're openly gay and with partner.
It sounds incredible and backs up what I’ve seen. Last point not a problem for me, I would be trying to take a Lebanese wife home , I think they’re beautiful, as others have mentioned.
It’s dilapidated now. They’ve been trying to knock it down for some time, but some landlords have been refusing to sell. There’s one guy refuses to move, he has a sign in the window saying, “I live here”, but the building is crumbling and he has the only windows in the entire block. Lots of people are trying to burn it down, it goes on fire at least 3 times a week.
Where does your username originate from? It sounds very Icelandic, but I could of course be totally barking up the wrong tree!
Yes,I saw it on the Scottish news one night some time ago,needs to come down,it's an eyesore and it'll be rat infested now...
It's old Nordic - it was the local nickname of my smallholding/sheep farm that I bought here in Norway, named because of a 'hammer'-shaped rock that is on the land jutting out into a small river.
