Standing in the railway station at Aleppo, it was quite a thought that we could travel by train all the way from Aleppo to Alloa. Indeed a century ago, we could have caught a train to Scotland from Medina in Saudi Arabia. From Aleppo we could have travelled to Turkey and then onwards to the Balkans or east to Iran. Instead we took a 5 hour train ride down through the hills to the coastal city of Latakkia from where we crossed over the border into Turkey - by bus.
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