A lovely friend of mine, E (not to be confused with any other E mentioned on this blog), invited me to the pool a few days ago. This was my view for the afternoon:
As always, Beirut is a city of contrasts, and one of the nicest hotels in the city can't help but be surrounded by the realities of this city's history. If you remember this post, you recognize that building in the background as the old Holiday Inn. All was not non-repaired destruction from the civil war, a store down the street as seen from the balcony:
That was far from the coolest thing you could see from the balcony, front and center was the Rafic Hariri memorial (he was President of Lebanon until 2005 when he was killed by a car bomb in front of the hotel):
Haven't guessed the hotel yet?
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