Radisson Blu Hotel Tripoli

... waste and a sad part of our history. Then on the bus to Cyrene, the site of an ancient Roman city on the coast. The ruins are spectacular there. We visited the temple of Zuess and then the city. The following day I went to Appolonia wich was just as amazing. A 12 hour bus ride took me from Benghazi to Zliten and the following day I went to another ancient city Leptis Magna. - Amazing! The best part ...

... 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!

... best bit is the censoring/editing. The bleeping of English swearwords is clearly something they try to do but they get a bit bored and only bother about half the time. Then you're watching a film and it gets a bit confusing. You realise they must have cut a HUGE chunk of it out for one reason or another. No thought given to the plotline! My favourite example of this is an advert for toothpaste. It took me quite a few views ...

... 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 ...

Our Arabic teacher invited me and 2 other ladies to his daughters wedding. The wedding was interesting experience. The other ladies had been to one before and had advised me to really really dress up, the more sparkles and frills the better so I had fun dress shopping and got the blue one - in the pics. The invite said 8pm, we turned up at 8.30 and no-one else turned up till after 10. It was a bit daunting attending a party where not only do you not speak the launguage much but there is also ...

... out that this particular shark isn't going to eat them, so they start ignoring him. Johnny gets angry and (disturbed prawn that he is) starts eating them. At last, there is only Christian left, and Johnny wants to play with him. He goes to Christian's rock and says, "Christian, come out and play with me!" "Nononono, you're a big shark, you're going to eat me!" "No, I won't eat you, please come and play with me." "Nononono, you're a great big shark ...

... 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.

... First up was a Volkswagon Beetle. But this was no ordinary Beetle. This belonged to the big Lab himself, Gadaffi. In we went. There were some mosaics, and Roman ruins. As far as the mosaics go, if you have not been to the Sousse Archiological Museum, or the Bardot Museum in Tunisia, you would be impressed. Sadly for our Lab, who by this stage was very excited, we have been to both, so we were quite bored. They just didn't cut it for us. Through all the different ...