Andrew Wall

So I’ve made it to Lebanon, my brother has become a father and I’ve become an uncle to a beautiful young lady called Emily who I look forward to meeting on my return home from my time in the middle east. I was hoping I’d be in the middle east when Emily was born so that some day I can tell her all about my time away traveling when she was born.
Today i visited some of the sights in lebanon which were very interesting but the most interesting part of today was visiting some of the refugee camps situated outside Beirut. It’s strange to go from a very bustling city were people take life to an excess as far as drink and drugs are concerned to an area where people have lost everything and are trying to rebuild. The camp is no longer tents and starving people but more buildings where people have built homes and businesses to try and leave there personal problems behind but are struggling to integrate into a society where they aren’t exactly wanted or respected. Some of the people living there are second generation refugees with no end in sight of the struggles that plight them.
Some day we might see a resolution of their problems but only time will tell. The situation in this country is something most people will only read about but to see it first hand is very different. While visiting ruins at Baalbeck their was a shrine to the hezbolalh. This shrine was very interesting to see but allowed me to see why troubles in Lebanon were a long way away from resolution. When you have things like this it continues to breed mistrust between nations and reminds me of the situation in northern ireland. I’m looking forward to moving on to Jordon and seeing Petra and leaving Lebanon.

In Syria at the moment which is nothing like what i expected. Loads has happened since greece including extending my trip for over two months.
Loads to follow including turkey, georgia and armenia.
Andrew

So I’ve been here two weeks now :) it’s a great place in kos at the moment. I’d first like to mention when in Athens the metro is great but I’ve seen more pick pocketers on the metro here then any where else. They generally get on at santagmo and get off soon afterwards. The good thing is that they are easy to spot. When getting on to the metro they generally work in groups of three or four. The poor unsuspecting tourist will get pushed from a few directions when getting onto to the metro by three of the gang at the same time the pick pocket will be doing his thing. He will generally have a small rucksack in his hand or jacket. Thye idea is that if he gets your wallet he drops it into the bag so when you see his hands they are empty. The group will then pretend not to know each other for the rest of the journey. Will edit this article again soon but right now i just wanted to get an article up.
A

So I sat my last exam on thursday and now I’m off to Greece for a few weeks followed by Turkey. If all goes well with my results I’ll have to start work soon :( but at least I’ll finally have a proper income coming into my account.

so after asking people who visit my site randomly to leave a message I finally got one from someone called andrew wall who obviously googled their own name. So thank you Andrew from Utah.
A

As the title tells I had an exam today. It didn’t go amazing but only 4 left so it’s not all bad :)

This might seem strange but I was just wondering if people see this article could they leave a comment as to how they ended up on this page. I don’t update my site half as much as i would like but I’m always amazed at the number of unique hits i get a day. So if you know me leave a comment, if you think you know me leave a comment and if you don’t sure just leave a comment anyway. Going to try and update my site more during the summer and start writhing interesting articles as well honest ;)

For the last two months I’ve been asking myself this question. Now I am biased in that I love my mac book and iPod but does the iPhone beat the nokia n95? Well the answer is I don’t know. It runs a reduced OS X kernel which is nice and a damn side better than symbian but does that combined with touch screen make it a better phone? Well for the next few weeks I’m not using a phone so that I can concentrate on my studies so after my exams I think I’m going to try and answer my question.

Happy christmas, to any one who may read this. Over here christmas eve is the real party so last night was a big night that cost more for dinner than my previous five dinners added together the food was anything but traditional irish christmas dinner but we were eating dinner in an italian restaurant. There was more wine and champagne then you could shake a stick at though. The guys were suffering today from the excess the night before. Well got to go,
Andrew

All I´ll say right know is that this place is amazing. Having a great time over here visiting a friend Kevin (kevfoley.com) aka celtic adventurer. There will be five of us spending christmas over here Kevin, Paul, Ciaran, Tom and yours truely. Was in Uruguay yesterday fot the day and tomorrow I´m doing some shopping in BA and then doing some tourist attractions . Only wish I had more time.
Andrew