Conference In Lebanon, Day 3

This is the last day of staying before we left next day. There was no conference today, at least for us. Some who are more scientifically oriented opted to attend, the rest of us went on a sightseeing tour to Jbeil (Byblos). It is located 45 miutes driving north of Beirut. The tour guide, a pretty girl, did her best to educate and explain things to us but almost got into a fight with some of us over some historical factoids. No humans were injured. She did a great job in fact and tolerated much of our interruptions and kid-behaving.
Jbeil has an old city, and per the guide is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. the ruins belong to several civilizations, and in it on of the early alphabets were discovered (after Ugarit, in Syria near Lattakia).
The ruins are nice and I took lots of pictures. Lunch was at a quite restaurant overlooking the see and some of the old ruins too.
On the way back, we (meaning the Syrian group) twisted the trip as we would like. I forgot to mention that we had five Egyptian persons with our group who, I believe, were overwhelmed with our hyperactivity and naughtiness. They were quite all the time, and when we had half an hour to go visit the old Souk (Market) in Jbeil, which is a historical one and very authentic looking, they went to pray in the mosque!!! So instead of taking a sea trip and the telefrique to Harisa, we skipped the first and went to Harisa by bus. That didn't bother me a bit, but the reason we did that is the women in our group wanted to have some time for shopping. Which they did afterwards, and me too.
At night we went to a place called Diwan Al-Sultan Ibrahim "ديوان السلطان ابراهيم" a very nice restaurant and excellent food (except Turmus which was not salted and without Cummins). Everyone from the conference has been there, and the whole place was almost booked for us. We were told that at the same time Al-Sanioura (Lebanese prime minister) and Sabah (الشحرورة) were dining at the same time there.
A group was singing, then a belly dancer came, then a folklore group. We danced and did Dabkeh until midnight. I for sure was a center of attention (wink).
Later we finished the night at the Lounge in our hotel where we continued dancing, Dabkeh, and such until a very early hour in the morning.
Next day we left, but alas we learned that they are going to take the rest of the group to a party for Elissa and Fadl Shaaker (I didn't want to write shaker with one "a" so it doesn't get misunderstood).
We thank Pierre Fabre for a very interesting weekend, and until next entry have fun.
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