TRAVELLING 30 HOURS FROM SYRIA TO CANADA
2025-11-07 · YouTube · Foodie Beauty · 11 min
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A travel vlog documenting a roughly 30–31 hour journey leaving Syria, with goodbye scenes and home-cooking, the flight to Doha with an in-flight meal, a long layover spent in the Doha/platinum lounge (buffet, cappuccino, desserts), and the subsequent flight toward Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport. Chantal shows family goodbyes, pets (Julia and Sasa), homemade Syrian foods (stuffed bread/fatah, homemade pizzas, grape leaves, semolina dessert), lounge meals and amenities, and brief in-flight views arriving into Canada.
Timeline and topics
- 0:09 — Intro: travel day plan and duration
- 1:54 — Goodbyes and final night in Syria (family, pets, olive tree)
- 2:47 — Preparing Syrian foods (fatire, grape leaves, semolina dessert)
- 6:13 — Drive to Damascus airport and departure
- 8:49 — Onboard flight and in-flight meal
- 9:15 — Long layover at Doha platinum lounge (buffet, coffee, amenities)
- 11:12 — Waiting for flight to Montreal and arrival views
Named details
- Pet — Julia: Pet shown and petted in final night footage (plays on olive tree). Evidence: “I'm also going to miss this olive tree in our yard, which provided a lot of entertainment for Julia.”; “here I am petting her”
- Pet — Sasa: Pet said to be with family; a farewell is shown. Evidence: “bye juice and bye to Sasa this was very emotional as well I'm gonna miss this little girl she's the sweetest sweetest child bye Sasa”
- Food — fatire / stuffed pita (Syrian version of fatah): Traditional bread stuffed with spinach and other ingredients, brushed with olive oil. Evidence: “they're making like fatire which is the bread here you saw stuffed with spinach and other items”; “what you get is this kind of stuffed pita and they pour olive oil over it”
- Food — homemade pizzas: Pizzas made in family's dough oven. Evidence: “and they also made some homemade pizzas with their dough oven”
- Food — grape leaves (dolma): Grape leaves being prepared and filled with a rice/onion/garlic/parsley/tomato/spice mixture. Evidence: “And here we are making grape leaves because I know that's my favorite.”; “For the grape leaves, so some onion, garlic, tomatoes, and we're just going to saute those down.”
- Food — semolina cream dessert (semolina, milk, honey, pistachio): Dessert made from semolina, cream, milk, honey and pistachio served at final night. Evidence: “they made this dessert out of semolina cream milk honey pistachio and it was one of the best things you I've pretty much ever eaten”
- Food — airline meal (bread roll, juice, water, creamy spinach polenta, vegetables, couscous salad, rice pudding): Meal served on flight departing Syria. Evidence: “And our meal for this flight was a bread roll, a juice, a water, some kind of creamy spinach polenta, and some vegetables, couscous salad, and delicious rice pudding.”
- Food — Doha lounge buffet items (cream of chicken soup, biryani, stuffed cheesy chicken, penne alfredo, canapés, mini blueberry: Multiple lounge dishes shown and tasted during long Doha layover, plus cappuccino and desserts. Evidence: “First course is some of the free chicken, cream of chicken soup with some croutons, from this lovely buffet.”; “um rice indian style rice biryani some stuffed cheesy chicken was so good and some penne alfredo with uh some parmesan cheese and a diet coke”; “This is a mini blueberry cheesecake with a bunch of berries on it”
- Cuisine — Syrian: Traditional Syrian home cooking and hospitality are featured throughout the pre-departure footage. Evidence: “I'm heading to the airport in Damascus. So he's driving me and it's my last little bit of time here in Syria.”