Bab Al Bahr Hotel Tripoli

... all of the ancient sites is that there are hadly any tourists here. Libya is unspoiled and the spring time is such a nice time to visit because all of the flowers are out and it is very pretty watching the colourful hills roll by. I am in Tripoli now, the capital of Libya. Here for a couple of days and then heading to Tunisia. Having a fabulous time and sad to be leaving such a wonderful country.

... a red and gold colour theme, all the women were totally dressed up, think Oscars dresses but add a heap more sequence, glitter, lace and matching heavy makeup, they looked beautiful. The first part of the night was lots of singing and dancing to very loud Libyan music, the dancing being incredible hip shaking a bit like belly dancing but different. Late in the evening the Bride arrived ...

... grasshoppers and chews on all the plants he recently put in) I offcourse said we should keep him because he is just so cute and needs a home. So I cleaned him up, took him to the vet and named him Sydney. And because to get him back to Oz will mean a 6 month stay in France for quarantine. :) He hangs out with me around the house and adores Lance for some reason - maybe because he actually crawls into his doghouse with him!.

... but he was actually taking pictures of an overloaded bus and they just happened to be in the background. luckily after some tense questioning at the police station he was released! note to any other tourists in Libya, be careful your not taking pictures of police or police stations!

... meaningless, or at least quite confusing. Of course that near-kiss is deemed to risque and has been cut, but it does kinda kill the whole point of the advert! My bike is playing silly beggars. Poor little sausage is very tired and a bit broken. I got some good parts for the clutch this time so that should defo last till I get home. The other thing, where it feels like it is losing power is getting worse. I had narrowed it down to ...

... in the one place. They drive like idiots, and fast - wrong way up a 3-4 lane road, no probs. Lots of accidents, we were sideswiped before we even reached the hotel (Eric also has an armoured Landcruiser, didn't seem to bother the battered little taxi though...), nobody bothered to stop. The hotel was quite good, with a bit of a view to the old Medina (city) and the corniche (coast). The rubbish everywhere was extreme - I have seen places with that much ...

... alcohol! everyone gets high on sugar... not really my style but i gave it a go. At about 10.30 we were served macaroons and sweet camel milk that had a marzipan flavour which really helped get us in a party mood. There were about 250 ladies attending - no men at all and me the only blonde. There was a very noisy arabic singer, she was so loud my ears hurt and the water glasses vibrated. All the girls got up to do their shakira dancing and then got us up and stood around us clapping while we ...

... my mate B's (B, pass me the ball) joke. Enjoy A little boy called comes into the kitchen one day and says to his mum, "Granny's got a prawn!" The mother says, "What on earth do you mean?!" The boy takes his Mother into the front room and shows him Granny, stark naked asleep on the sofa. He points to Grandmas protruding clitoris and says, "Granny's got a prawn! "His mother whispers, "That's your Grandmother's clitoris son!" To which The little boy ...

... response. some of the pic's I have mislabeled - souk de lat - it is actually meant to be souk telat which means tuesday market, open every day but really busy on tuesdays. 24/5/07 sad news this week is that souk telat has been closed down to make way for a train station. We are waiting to hear where the venders move to.

... for us. We drove out for a while before we came to a fish restaurant where you choose your fish. There were so many different types to choose, even swordfish. There were also loads of little sharks. All I could think of was, no wonder the Med is being fished out. Still, we picked them, a guy butterflied the fish, and it was beautiful, but **** me, it was way to big to finish. It was a good way to spend our last dinner, especially with the no salad and soup **** !!!