I spent the weekend in Tanail at the Farm and Retreat house of the Jesuit Fathers, together with my friend Amal. We walked for hours and admired the beautiful lake with its fish and water snakes. A time of prayer and exchange.

When driving back I took 2 pictures of the destroyed Medeirej Bridge. It will take a lot of time to repair the bridge.

So when heading back to Beirut there was a huge traffic jam caused by an accident with a UN truck as you can see on the photo. It seems a French soldier was killed in this accident. This Daher El Baydar road is the highway connecting Lebanon and Syria and a very dangerous road. Foreigners, myself included, are not used to this very special way of Lebanese driving style!