Plague doctor get-up, Mental Asylums, the Earth from the Air, Dead shoes, Lamb's testicles and many many ruins The next day after a leisurely breakfast nearby on the road with all the fruit juice stands by bab al-faraj we headed into Aleppo's old city. India and I, for the first time in our lives, donned the extremely attractive witches cloaks that made us look like plague doctors and headed into the Great Mosque. It is a beautiful and elegant space, a littl...

Aladdin towers, wild west railroads, nibbly fish, chubby men, chasing coaches and cherry kebabs The train was our chosen form of transport for the next part of our journey to get us to Al-Thaura. It was very quick but very early in the morning and it saw us compelled to rise at the less than civilised hour of 5.30am. On the plus the bus we rode on to get to the station had rainbow interior lights which I thought was a nice touch. The route the train went ...