The Fruits of Lebanon

The first instalment one of a three-part series about the Levant

Every now and then, we’ve got to look at postcards from ostensibly “better times”.

Today, it is such a day: I’ve been sitting on these specimen for some time now, and having never been to Lebanon, I find them fascinating.

Like with the picture postcards from Iraq around 1960, these show an “easier”, or at least not as horrible past (relative to the present).

If anything, my heart goes out to the people of Lebanon who are suffering the depredations of our times. Here’s hoping that the children of the Levant will, at some point in time, awake to a more peaceful morning sun.

“Fruits of Lebanon”

All the below postcards bear this inscription, were printed in Beirut, and while some are quite…spot-on, others are, well, a wee bit different.

Well, in the below image, there are fruits (and then some).

Tomorrow, we’ll got to Beirut, with another trip to Baalbek planned for later this week.