Four Seasons 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 ...

So here are some pics of our new house and new dog!! Sorry Meg for this taking me so long to upload. New house was due to a giant mosque which now overshadows our old one and the new dog is because the poor thing was dumped on the farm. Mohammed found him and brought him to us covered in tics and fleas and starving. He said we should keep him as having a dog will keep away the rats and mice - (much to Mohammed's disgust he only ...

Mum and Dad came to visit in November last year for 2 weeks. We kept them busy with trips to Leptus Magna, Sabratha, markets and our kind Libyan friend organised a 2 day tour of the medina! We also had an unfortunate incident with the police, they thought dad was taking pictures of ...

... doesn't quite tally with the lips (in order to get into posh cafes you need to manoeuvre round piles of breeze blocks), the lashes are on wonky (the espresso gets served in a huge paper cup) and the LBD is clearly her mum's from the early 90s (the decorative artificial pond in the main square has a nice relective sheen of oil). Mind you, it's not pretentious about it. It's not trying too ***********'t think it cares at all. It ...

... thing is open to the beach. I was told there is quite a problem with boats coming in at night and helping themselves. We had a short time in the souq in the Medina - not much there really and still a bit early for it to be fully open, but I bought a hand beaten copper pot from a lovely old fellow and a couple of silver bracelets from another guy - they were very friendly and spoke English. And that was that, another side swipe on the way back to the airport - not us ...

... incase men would ever see them uncovered, shame because they were all really dolled up. At 12.30pm dinner was served which included sheeps testicals covered in glitter - not brave enough to try them but the other food was nice. Aparently the groom arrives at about 3am but we couldn't last that late. It was a fun but noisy night. This was a more modern Libyan wedding I'm hoping I can also get invited to a very traditional one in the future and also find out more about the wedding traditions.

... Well, it tastes like a prawn!" There are 2 prawns, one called Johnny and one called Christian. They're happy prawns, playing with their happy prawn friends. One day Johnny decides that he's bored, so he goes to see Cod. "Cod, I'm bored," says Johnny. "Please turn me into a great big shark!" So Cod waves his magic fin and turns Johnny into a shark. Johnny swims off and has a few fun weeks scaring all his little friends. But eventually they ...

... involved in the preservation of historical sights in the Mdina and written a book on it's history. The best part of the tour was looking inside the Mosques, each quite different in design and history, the main thing that struck me about the mosques were that they were all very colourful.

... difference in there. I walked around on a friday recently and found it very quiet until prayer time then everyone seemed to some out of the walls, and lay their prayer matts down on the paths which literally stopped me in my tracks. Not amazing shopping in there but some interesting ones and lots of friendly children.. and cats. many more picture oportunities in there, this is only the start.