It was in Hama that I started having flashbacks to a David Attenborough documentary on the history of the human race and their interaction with their environment in this cradle of civilisation that is the Middle East. The huge water wheels of Hama was one of the striking images from the series that summoned memories from almost two decades ago, through the rather blurry filter that my long-term cerebral storage facility is blessed with. If only they made memory cards for your brain...
At any rate, the wheels are incredible - having a brilliant lunch of mixed mezzes in an open air restaurant by the river with two of these 14th century monsters groaning as they gracefully (and noisily) revolved I think goes down as one of the best meals of the trip.
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