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Unannounced Delays
Four weeks later, having backpacked from Benin to Mali, I was back in Tripoli. I had meant to be just changing planes but there was a delay and nobody was telling us why. The huge plasma screens at the airport were no longer showing CNN or BBC World News. The flight delays seemed to be stacking up but then it was announced that a couple of ...
Tripoli : A quelques heures du début de la révolut
... manifestent sur la place avec leur drapeau libyen et l’incontournable livre vert écrit par Mouammar.
Les voitures klaxonnent, les gens montent sur les bagnoles. En théorie, rien à craindre, la police va pas tirer sur des partisans de Kadhafi..
On s’engage dans les ruelles du souk mais malheureusement la plupart des magasins sont fermés. Dommage. Notre guide nous emmène dans la vieille ville pour aller devant l’entrée de palais, église et ...
Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses
... I opted instead to sit outside, in the pleasant town square, and take in the sights of this unusually calm and peaceful city. A short break in Libya may have cost me more than I would have hoped, but I thought that it was worth it, to at least have had a taste of Libya just as the country was beginning to open up to the world, and before the real tourist invasion began.
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Feelass of Power
... heritage site in 1982 and new archaeological discoveries are still being made today.
Jamal pointed out a carving in one of the large stone pillars.
'This is a feelass' said Jamal. 'How do say feelass in English?'
I had no idea what he was talking about. It looked like a big willy to me. He pointed out an even bigger one. It was undoubtedly a huge stone carved cock.
'Ah' I said, 'you mean a phallus: an ancient symbol of power ...
Riots amd Kebabs
... this troubled region of the world; while both of its neighbours, Algeria and Libya, were considered to be pretty much no-go areas for all but the most adventurous of travellers, Tunisia was full of tourists. They were now all leaving in droves, and from what I could gather from the international news, the same kind of uprisings seemed to be kicking off all over the Arab world. In the few hours between setting off early to the airport, and arriving in ...
