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Travel: Beyond the cotton fields and unruly goats Jeremy Atiyah takes a taxi along the river Euphrates in Syria to the Iraq border
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How do you find a cab driver willing to take you down the
Euphrates? Easy. Go to the Baron Hotel in Aleppo. Hang around next to
the wall-map entitled "Antiquites de Syrie". Pay attention to the
drawing of the Valley of the Euphrates marked in bold black ink with
diagrams of Hittite lions and Roman temples. Then wait to be ambushed
by a globular hotel attendant called Abdu.
It worked for me, anyway. "I'm a taxi driver on my days off," was
Abdu's gambit. "I've got an icebox in my car." ...
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