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HOTELS What A „Holiday Inn“!
OH, I REMEMBER IT AS A POSH HOTEL, THIS „HOLIDAY INN“ in BEIRUT: A huge building, overlooking the warm and blue Mediterranean. With a rotating restaurant on the highest floor and probably the most luxurious hotel of the chain. Some days ago I stood in front of it, speechless – it’s a ruin since 1991, … Weiterlesen
Kategorien: Moments You Never Forget
Schlagwörter: Army, Civil War, Lebanon, Mediterranean, Ruin, Terrorists
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CARS A Conversation Piece … (No. 45)
When I asked my guide (my controller really) in the Northern Korean capital of Pyöng- yang what this thing on four wheels is, I got the proud answer: „The cuckoo!“ What? „Our car, produced in North Korea!“ I’m a polite visitor, otherwise I would have answered: „Yes, and it looks like it.“ It’s a car … Weiterlesen
Kategorien: A Conversation Piece ...
Schlagwörter: Army, Cuckoo, North Korea, Pyöngyang
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