My Kind of Saturday Night

  It’s late on a Saturday night and I’m sitting in the comfort of our home, playing a really cool board game  with our friends called Takenoko, where we’re trying to cultivate bamboo to get a panda to survive. This is all set to 80s music that we’re live-streaming from some radio station in the…

The Road to Abdelli

Getting to Abdelli seemed easy enough- according to the tiny piece of paper Ahmad had printed out and handed to me to use for navigation as we made our way to the North. It did not, however, convey just how many unpaved twists and turns we would have to take to get to what I…

A Weekend Away at Les Terrasses de Abdelli

Snow is not exactly my best friend. For someone who is born right in the middle of winter, I cannot stand the cold and the charm of everything covered in white wears off really, really fast. Plus, the terrible road conditions always terrify me so I always try to put off any trip to the…

We Chill on Sundays

Earlier today, when we made plans with our friends to have lunch at Oliver’s Kitchen and Coffee Shop, I had no idea that we would spend a good chunk of the afternoon playing Scrabble and trying to one-up each other with a vast vocabulary and some strategy. But while we were waiting for the group to…

Beirut, I’m Impressed

Hands down, it’s the summer of street festivals in Beirut. Wherever you go or whether you’re just browsing Facebook looking for something to do on Sunday, you’ll find an announcement for a street festival happening around the city. These are usually the most crowded streets around town, where you can’t but get stuck in traffic…

Let’s Go On a Roadtrip

A roadtrip is always a valid answer to the question “what should we do on the weekend?” Because there’s always so much to see even in a country as tiny as Lebanon. And because the concrete can get suffocating. A roadtrip is always a great idea unless you have my fiancé driving. If he’s behind…

MJ’s Burger: A Not-So-Bad Burger

We stumbled upon MJ’s Burger while walking through Mar Mikhail on a Saturday. As is the case, we didn’t know what we wanted to eat, just that we wanted to take advantage of the good weather. It just so happened that their waiter saw us peering in through the window, wondering “what’s the place” and…