Hotel Al Mehari 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.

... pearls as possible. I didn't wear it for long, it was actually painful the weight of gold on my head. The necklace I was wearing was apparently worth about 30,000AUD, it was very heavy. Lance said next time they dress me up like that to run away :) So sorry all the pics are of me but I wasn't allowed to take any of the women. I hope you can appreciate though how beautiful the traditional dress is.

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 ...

... made out to be. There's the pretty palm lined boulevards, the seafront promenade, the little cafe-filled squares, the patisseries etc. but it's not quite there. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice city but it ain't the uber-chic place that the guide books tout it as. It's like a 12 year old girl who is going out on her first date and is getting all tarted up. From a distance she look all grown up by up close you can see that the ...

... feel. The local women wear traditional clothing with headscarves but we didn't see any face veils - the men in long tunics and pants. We had dinner at Eric and Cynthia's house with 4 of their friends - Dutch and Germans. They were interesting to talk to and the German couple spent 6 years living in Oman and continue to go back there to go 4WD and camping so we picked their brains pretty hard. There were plenty of war stories between them all - life is no piece of ...

... they laughed at us, tried to show us and meanwhile the singer was shouting AUSTRALIA!!! AUSTRALIA!!! AUSTRALIA!!! we felt like the novelty entertainment for the night. The beautiful bride looked like a perfect disney style snow white with heavy makeup, fake eyelashes and full white gown. She sat the whole evening on the chair (in the picture) having her photo taken by the professional photographer and guests lined up to congratulate her. Unfortunatly noone else was allowed to take ...

Now for something different. I have this crazy friend, B (B, B , pass me the ball), and he tells the worst jokes you have ever heard (well, not quite as bad as mine which tend to be very long and drawn out and disappointing in that they don't ever really have a punch line). But anyway, back to B (B, pass me the ball). So while we were younger B (B, pass me the ball) had this stupid prawn joke that was his absolute favourite and he was forever telling ...

... 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.

Notre arrivée est quelque peu surprenante. Il pleut et il fait froid. Je ne m'attendais certainement pas à ça. Mais après tout, c'est l'hiver ici aussi. Notre comité d'accueil nous amène à l'hôtel ou nous retrouvons Marc, un technicien et Gerry, le mécanicien. Adam est parti pour quelques jours à Sebha ou nous serons basés. Il devrait être de retour demain ou le jour suivant. Ceux-ci nous emmènent aussitôt dans un excellent ...