num_pages: 253
description: For God's sake don't take a gendarme with you. That's asking for trouble. People won't have any confidence in you at all and you will find yourself being shot at on principle. Pin your faith of Arab hospitality drink only spring water and watch out if you meet a man by himself high up in the mountains. He's probably an outlaw and what he will want is cigarettes food and news and if you give him those you should be all right.This was the considered opinion of our quarter in Beirut on the walk we proposed to take with our children through the high mountains of Lebanon. Yes in spite of this warning and the natural hazards of a 300-mile trek with four children in country that was practically waterless ad infected with serpents and scorpions Ralph and Molly Izzard arrived safely at their journey's end.
language: English
title: Smelling the Breezes
publisher: The Travel Book Club