Fabled City Episode 5 Is Now Live!

Beirut- The 2nd segment of my Cyprus series is up on my Fabled City channel is online . If I do say so, I’m really happy with how this is going so far despite it not taking off like a rocket. But they say, meaning the Youtube gods, that it is normal for it to take a good while before a new channel gains traction. Some of these self-professed gurus say you need to have uploaded over 100 videos to get noticed. For the moment I’m just happy creating these things.

It’s harder than I first thought and more stressful than it needs to be but I’m overall loving the process. A lot of these ideas I conceived before even leaving NYC while others I’m thinking up on the fly. It takes a while before this becomes a rote process so I’m still resorting to google (even if it’s stuff I’ve already solved via google but haven’t yet memorised). Creating them is driving me forward in terms of my travel trajectory. I’m already gaming out things for the next country.

This episode is on the [Greek] Cypriot election last month where Nikos Christodoulides was elected as an independent and begins is five year term today, 1 March. In a very ad hoc self directed way I try to follow the campaign trail in this small nation at the heart of big geopolitics. In this video I start my journey have almost no idea where to begin and by the end the new president brushes past my and my GoPro.

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides greeting campaign staff and supporters at his campaign HQ in Nicosia on 12 February. ©2023 Derek Henry Flood

But I’m still lagging behind in that I’m nearly done here in Beirut and haven’t begun even the first Lebanon edit and there’s still a gap from uploading to Youtube and updating this blog to reflect that. This often has come down to sheer levels of tiredness. By the time I get the edit done and file created I can barely stand to look at this MacBook for one more passing minute.