Why not stay out of danger and invent
your trip? You could work up a pretty convincing library of travellers’ tales
about Lebanon, for instance, by visiting http://www.laa.org/directory.htm,
which tells you everything you need to know about the country, from local food
to this year’s Miss Lebanon. If your imagination took you to Washington DC or
Los Angeles, you could even complain realistically about the hassle getting from
the airport to your town centre hotel with information from
http://travel.epicurious.com/travel/c_planning/06_airports/intro.html.
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