Get me out of here 16/3/10

The military presence around Place Etoile is heavy and sitting out having a coffee in the open air
Byblos 15/3/2010
It’s 11.45pm in Beirut, and I am sitting on the hotel balcony having just finished a Tuborg! Just about to crack open a can of Wideman, brewed in accordance with the German purity law, but not the taste law. Much needed relief after a hair-raising taxi ride back from the seaside at Byblos.