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Al-Kendi Hotel Tripoli

Al-Kendi street Tripoli, Libya

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Unannounced Delays

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

... would now be leaving. I rushed to catch my flight to London, and escape the grimly overcrowded airport.

Only a few hours after leaving Tripoli, I was glad to find that everything was safe and secure and as it should be in my flat. Even the plants had survived. I turned on the television and tuned into the news only to find that ...

Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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I walked away from the news of the uprisings being shown on the large flat screened television, during the hotels' buffet breakfast, and set out towards the heart of historic Tripoli. The Sarah Guardian Hotel was far better value than anywhere else that I could have booked through the internet, but it was a bit of a walk to get into the historic old town. There didn't seem to be any buses around and hardly anybody else seemed to be walking. It seemed like everybody ...

Feelass of Power

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... Phoenicians around 1100 BC and later became Africa's premier Roman city, under the reign of the Libyan Roman Emperor, Septimus Severus (r AD 193 - 211). If Leptis Magna was in Tunisia or Morocco or Egypt, then it would be crawling with thousands of tourists. As it is, it receives remarkably few foreign visitors. Every now and again, a luxury cruise liner will anchor down nearby, and the site will be inundated by hordes of affluent coffin dodgers but most ...

Oburoni Bye Bye

A travel blog entry by tonyinghana

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... and goat, fried rice, and lobster. Sat on the beach for hours, playing cards and mankala, playing ngoni and enjoying the beach. Talking to sweet people, bartering for more absurd clothing items (bought some pants even more out there than my last pair), watching rastas be rastas, and just taking in the beach for the last time. The 5 (not counting the ants roaches and mice haha) of us slept at Arouna's house which was quite the tight squeeze, but free accomodation with great people, ...

Welcome Peter

A travel blog entry by harriel

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Last Friday, a new colleague arrived and started work with me in my office.
Therefore yesterday we had a welcome dinner and after a small party.
After chatting, playing darts or pool, we started gulping some wine and beer and it became more sorted out, until the hard core was remaining.

Some would say "maybe, it was a little bit too much".
I don't think so ;-)
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