Sabra and Shatila, South Beirut and Sidon

His brother was killed during the Sabra and Shatila massacre and he wears a leg splint after being shot by the Israelis during one of the invasions. Zac befriended him in a bar. So today we are with Yasser, a Palestinian, who gave us a tour of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp and Dahieh (South Beirut), a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district and Hezbollah stronghold, bombed into rubble during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict but now partially reconstructed by Iranian money.

Hard to know what to say except I felt like a "Time" correspondent.

We kept travelling south and onto Sidon and explored a sea castle built by the Crusaders where much of the material was scavenged from an earlier Roman temple. We wandered the old vaulted souk and bought some handmade olive oil soap.

Some shifty boys tried to get us to visit a hamman which was really their bathroom! Hard to know what to say about this except I felt like Kenneth Williams in a Carry On movie.