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Unannounced Delays
... now Libya that was making the headlines. The uprising had already started while I was in the airport and my flight back to London had been amongst the very last to leave. Only a few hours later and I'd have been in Libya for rather longer than a short break.
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Tripoli : A quelques heures du début de la révolut
... L’hôtel est dans le quartier des grossistes en fringue made in China ou India. Il y a une sorte de marché couvert où on trouve le poisson, la viande (surtout des abats), des animaux de compagnie, des fruits et légumes (ici, les radis viennent de Tchernobyl, ils sont quasiment aussi gros qu’une petite poire…)
Tu commences à te perdre un peu dans les ruelles qui ont gardé un aspect ancien. Tu dois ramener des cartouches de clopes, le problème est que ...
Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses
... narrow lanes around this photogenic arch. You can even buy Libya tourist t-shirts at the solitary souvenir shop. I couldn't find the old French Consulate building and nobody seemed to be around at the old British Consulate when I wandered in, but the architecturally similar House of Yusuf Karamanli was open to the public. The atmospheric Ottoman mansion was full of enthusiastic children exhibiting their art work. I was warmly welcomed in and shown around the ...
Feelass of Power
... my trousers while sitting over a hole in the line of stone carved toilets. As he was taking a picture of me on the toilet, a family of Libyan day trippers emerged from the bathing complex. While quickly moving on towards the forum and the market area, I glanced back to notice that the family behind us was also doing their best to recreate the same picture. It seemed to be the thing to do.
Jamal had recently returned from a six month stay in Europe and ...
Riots amd Kebabs
... seemed to take much notice of me. They were far more interested in getting their dinner than in what a foreigner was doing in there.
The buildings in this part of Tripoli looked grey, cheap and poorly constructed. After oil was discovered in Libya in 1959 and rural migrants began to flood into the capital in search of this new found wealth, the rapid expansion of Tripoli was poorly planned and chaotic. Consequently, most of the building and ...
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