Refreshing side salad x 2

Ingredients:

Iceberg lettuce
Cucumber
Avocado
Celery
large on the vine tomato

Dressing:

Salt and pepper
Lemon and extra virgin olive oil

Method:

Simply chop all ingredients into similar size cubes and dress with salt, pepper, lemon and olive oil

Ingredients:

Large on the vine tomato
Cucumber
White salad onion (or red)
A few sprigs of coriander

Dressing:

Lemon juice (or lime)
Sea salt and black pepper
Extra virgin olive oil


Method:

Slice the tomato, cucumber and onions into rings.  Chop the coriander into very small pieces.  Add lemon or lime and olive oil as well as sea salt and black pepper.  Give a good stir to coat the ingredients with the dressing.

This is great with an Indian meal.

Road journey from Kuwait to England in 1965 (properties in Syria)

Houses in Syria in 1965

I was going through old photos this week and came across this black and white photo I took, probably with a Kodak Brownie in December 1965.  I assumed these were houses in Syria and wrote that on the back of the photo.  We slept in the car one night as towns in the desert were far apart back then.  We stayed at a hotel in Damascus for one night.  In the morning, a local person begged us to visit the town of Hama where there was a beautiful water wheel.  I have a photo of that but cannot find it.

How things have changed.