A number of people have contacted me via the comments to my post below and on Twitter in response to my appeal for advice after my blog was momentarily blocked in Syria. Shukran jazeelan to everyone for their tips – much appreciated! Unfortunately (or fortunately), I’m a busy travel writer with a lot to do here in Syria at the moment – boutique hotels to review, restaurants to try out, artists and musicians to interview – and blogging is not high on my list of priorities at the moment sadly, so I don’t have time to test out all your suggestions now. In addition to my lack of time, the intermittent and excruciatingly slow internet access at a lot of the hotels we’re staying at means I simply can’t get on the net when it’s convenient nor wait for photos to upload at the usual size I post them. And I don’t have time to keep running back to the Four Seasons, which must have the fastest internet access in town.
Quite a few people have written to me about blogspot being banned here and forwarded links supporting this (sorry, but I don’t have time to respond to everyone), however, just for your info, I can access a large number of blogspot blogs that I usually read from other parts of the world from Syria (and I was able to access them on previous trips here too), including many listed on my own blogroll, and Syrian-based blogspot blogs that I don’t normally read but have discovered on this trip. People are asking me what ISPs I am using and am I using proxies. As I am reviewing hotels, I am moving hotels every couple of days so I’m using whatever ISP the hotel is using and whether the hotel has a proxy or not, I’m sorry but I don’t have time to investigate, and would rather be talking to a singer such as the wonderful Rasha Rizk than an IT guy. Hoping you understand.
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