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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
... peu d’argent local. Tu trouves tout un troupeau de flic qui surveille une grande rue. Ça sent la manif … Tu leur baragouines en arabe que tu cherches une banque ; Y en a pas un qui est capable de te dire où il y en a….Apparemment, ça existe pas ici… Mal barré pour acheter des souvenirs.
Bon tu retournes à l’hôtel pour la visite officielle à 2 à l’heure.
On passe près de la place verte qui commence à se remplir de monde. Plein de gens ...
Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses
... the two stories of rooms that overlooked the fountain in the central courtyard.
After meandering through narrow lanes of blacksmiths, bakers and artisans, I found myself back under the clock tower in the square between the Red Castle and Medina, where the popular Magha as-Sa'a traditional teahouse is located. It's actually more of a posh coffee shop, now, than a traditional teahouse, with excellent cappuccinos, and large plasma screens hung across the ...
Feelass of Power
... paying the small official entrance fee, we walked past the closed museum and down towards the huge lump of ornately carved stone that is the Arch of Septimus Severus. The monument can't be dated precisely, but it seems that it was erected soon after the Emperors defeat of the Parthians. The grand arch covered the crossroads on the main street of the city and each of its corners points to the four corners of the compass. It clearly marked the point at which all ...
Riots amd Kebabs
... to be given my proper visa. I seemed to be the only passenger on my flight from Gatwick, that wasn't just switching planes in Tripoli on the way to a variety of destinations in (mainly) West Africa. I had opted to pay another 10 Euros to be picked up at the airport by a driver from the hotel, and sure enough, as soon as I walked through customs (with minimal fuss), there he was, holding up my name on a piece of cardboard. I couldn't believe how easy it had ...
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