And the Websurf Continues :)

Yay, Wellington THRASHED Taranaki (pronounced Taarahnahkey LOL) in the rugby back home 73 to 28. Now if only our Super 12 team could do as well.



Interesting one this article, about the restoration of a 3000 year old neighbourhood in Damascus' Old Town, not for the tourists, but for houses, restaurants and living areas for actual Syrians. I was saying earlier how a 1300 galaxy cluster was being formed 800 million years ago (light years away) as mindblowing - it is almost as mindblowing thinking of how old Damascus is, and how Saint Paul used to wander around it (not that I am religious or anything). And I WAS THERE woohoo - when the whole neighbourhood was a lot quieter than it is now - 1998. Mid 98, not towards the end where the US and Britain were threatening missile strikes on the country.



From the article - 'Old Damascus was an important trading hub on the Silk Road between the Far East and Europe. At its peak, 100,000 people of various professions, tribes and faiths lived inside its walls. The vast Omayyad Mosque, once shared by Christians and Muslims, rests on the remains of a Roman temple dating back to the 3rd century, which itself sits on the ruins of an Aramaic temple built 1,000 years earlier. Tradition holds that after his blinding conversion on the road to Damascus, Saint Paul recovered his sight in a stone hut on Hanania Street.'



OMG, there's a fly in the ointment - there's going to be a PLANET HOLLYWOOD just outside the Old Town walls. This from a country that didn't even offer Coke for sale six years ago? Hmm, things change I guess, but being in a country without Coca Cola was amazing in it's weirdness - good weird of course :)



Hmm, think that is about it for now - 2 and a half entries later for the day LOL. Not much up with today for me - read the newspaper, have lunch, see what else is up with the day, but nothing planned.



Spot yas all later :)

Paul