Skiing Holidays (4/2/13 - 10/2/13)

At the beginning of February CARAVAN took a one-week brake from its work. Maxime spent the week with his family in Britain, Charlotte, Aglae and Benedicta enjoyed the peace of Naccash and the remaing Caravanistas braved the mountains of Lebanon to go skiing. Georgina, Paul, Julius, Jakob and I, Callum, rented a chalet in Faraya for three days, in a place called ‘Hotel al Badr’. The chalet was very cosy, had a stove, fridge, TV and two sofas. The hotel owner, ‘Mr Joe’, with typical Lebanese hospitality, offered us free ‘manoush’ every morning, cooked outside the hotel reception on order, and encouraged us to eat at the restaurant of his friends nearby.

After consuming two or three hot ‘manousha’ at 7.30 am, we took the snow taxi to the slopes, with ‘manousha’ stuffed in our pockets. The weather was not too cold, but also good for snow. We skied for two days for seven hours and enjoyed it hugely, especially the falling over. From the top of one ski lift we could see Chabrouh, to which I walked on Wednesday afternoon when it was too rainy to ski.

On the evening of Friday everyone was back in the flat and we celebrated Georgina’s nineteenth birthday with a huge party. We were honoured to have a DJ, who offered us his service for the sake of friends. The party was long and fun. The following morning we woke up late and cleaned the flat. Callum went to Surat with Doctor Issa again.

by Callum