This weekend we drove up north to the coast and of course I was logging the journey so that I can upload it to OSM. The majority of the motorway up past Homs, through Tartus and onto Lattakia has already been mapped, although I think it's been done remotely since it's a bit off in places. I've made most of my uploaded tracks public if anyone fancies updating the existing roads.

In Lattakia we stayed at the Cham Cote D'Azure Resort, which I've mapped but honestly couldn't recommend as a place to stay. I've also mapped the nearby Le Meridien hotel and a couple of nice restaurants in Lattakia, Abu Kamel and Views. The first is a very simple restaurant but can't fault the fish. The second is very nice but extremely expensive for Syria.

The second day we drove to Salah Ed-Din's castle, turning off the main road and taking a very picturesque route up through the hills which I've mapped, as well as the castle itself.

The third day we drove across the hills again and headed to Hama. The majority of this great road has already been mapped, but I did add a couple of extra bits and again the mapped road is a bit out in places; I've not updated it but have made my track public if anyone else fancies it. On the way, we drove through Banias and I've added a few streets in this town; amusingly we had a bit of a police escort through the town when we stopped to ask directions. I've added a few more roads in Hama and will add a few more and the Four Norias restaurant where we ate...