Aleppo

Aleppo is a famous city with a marvellous citadel and an interesting museum. Unfortunately, the tight schedule of our filming expedition did not allow us time to visit the former and Syrian restrictions on filming did not allows us to bring you news of the latter.

However, for a starving cameraman, these ancient attractions pale into insignificance beside the discovery of a shop crammed with delicious, mouth-watering, Arab sweets - and when you find that the staff are friendly, the service prompt and the sweets every bit as good as they look, you just have to get out the camera and tell the world!