In Beirut I also met Jarek, a colleague tourist guide from Poland (he works in Sharm esh-Sheikh and Ghurdaqa from where he'll fly back home before Christmas), and Gyorgy from Hungary (Turkey's still waiting for him before he gets back home in mid-January) with whom I spent two days wandering around.
Marcel and Peter are two Dutch who wanted to travel around the Mediterranean (again this idea!) but health situation back home forced them to turn the horses back just before embarking on the Aqaba-Nuweiba ferry in Jordan so in a few days they'll cross Slovenia again.
15.12.2003 | Jordan
On my journey I've come across with many people, mostly locals, but also with some from ex-Yugoslavia, like Nina and Marija from Belgrade who are studying Arabic in Dimashq, Nidal from Zagreb that lives and works in Libanese Sidon, as well as a McDonald's manager in a small Lebanese town near Syrian border (OK, I had to spend the last Lebanese lira) who asks me upon my arrival: "Are you from Ljubljana?" and that in fluent Croatian! He was married in Bosnia, but those times are a matter of the past.
