BEIRUT, LEBANON - Here sits our gracious host Mr Steve Wakeem adorned in recent fashion arrivals from Aotearoa. As batman dons his cape to morph, Steve’s new All Blacks jersey gave him the comfort to do away with pants, slide into the jandals and relax back into the old antipoddean ways. The Vegemite completing the ‘Noir’ theme. It’s been almost a ritual to pass the wee small hours over a few packs of cigarettes and vino, Beirut reveals itself to be a city best not slept in.

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