{"id":5353,"date":"2023-03-01T06:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2023-03-01T06:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:18:54","slug":"fabled-city-episode-5-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=5353","title":{"rendered":"Fabled City Episode 5 Is Now Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 5: Cyprus Changes Hands (I literally rub elbows with the new president)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrv0nAfvauo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beirut- The 2nd segment of my Cyprus series is up on my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCITZ_i1P1x2oAgPzFbmBIZg\" target=\"_blank\">Fabled City channel<\/a> is online . If I do say so, I&#8217;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&#8217;m just happy creating these things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s harder than I first thought and more stressful than it needs to be but I&#8217;m overall loving the process. A lot of these ideas I conceived before even leaving NYC while others I&#8217;m thinking up on the fly. It takes a while before this becomes a rote process so I&#8217;m still resorting to google (even if it&#8217;s stuff I&#8217;ve already solved via google but haven&#8217;t yet memorised). Creating them is driving me forward in terms of my travel trajectory. I&#8217;m already gaming out things for the next country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo.jpg 648w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo-560x420.jpg 560w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo-260x195.jpg 260w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/President-Christo-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President-elect Nikos Christodoulides greeting campaign staff and supporters at his campaign HQ in Nicosia on 12 February. \u00a92023 Derek Henry Flood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m still lagging behind in that I&#8217;m nearly done here in Beirut and haven&#8217;t begun even the first Lebanon edit and there&#8217;s still a gap from uploading to Youtube and updating this blog to reflect that. 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