Tag Archives: Saladin’s Castle
King of the Asian Castles
Everybody loves a castle or a fort. We imagine knights on horseback, lowering the drawbridge & portcullis, a battering ram, catapult, perhaps even crocodiles in the moat. The truth of course is that they were brutal places. Built to be impregnable, usually somewhere high up, they could reign terror on any attackers – arrows, boiling […]
Syria Before The Conflict Part Five, Saladin’s Castle & Memory Tricks
Are you ever convinced of something only to find that the memory has played tricks on you? Well this happened to me whilst chronicling my 2009 Syria trip. I have just discovered some notes I scribbled along the way and have found two long held beliefs to be incorrect. First of all we visited in […]
Syria Before The Conflict Part Five, Saladin’s Castle & Memory Tricks
Are you ever convinced of something only to find that the memory has played tricks on you? Well this happened to me whilst chronicling my 2009 Syria trip. I have just discovered some notes I scribbled along the way and have found two long held beliefs to be incorrect. First of all we visited in […]
