Zliten Hotel

After 4 hours at the border, finally managed to make my way into Libya only to have some jerk go through the contents of my bag and then ask me for money for the pleasure! Libya is such a surprise. The people are so friendly and reserved (unlike Egypt!) and there is so much to see here. I first went to Tobruk and visited the war memorials there. It is so sad to see all the Aussie graves there - such ...

... a huge white western style wedding dress, sparkly jewellery, tiara, veil and again thick makeup so she looked like a doll. She took her place at the front on the bridal chair while everyone continued to dance and she posed for pictures. The groom arrived around midnight and sat next to the bride for more pictures. The following evening was the tradition female gathering held in a tent ...

... 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!

... 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 ...

... scenery was tri-banded in colour: to my left was the lush green of the Akhdar mountains (Libya's finest...they may be her only ones); then you have the rich red sand of the narrow desert scrubland region, over which I am driving, extending right up to the clean blue Mediterranean on my right, nearly blueberry in the depths. It would make a good flag I think, certainly much better than the rather unimaginative pure green that is the current Libyan flag ...

... glow. Wonderful colours - the sea either purple/grey or turquoise with golden, almost orange sand was a spectacular backdrop to it all. First founded in 7th century BC by Punic refugees it came under Roman influence in 111 BC. There was a cruise ship in Tripoli and it's contents were at Leptis Magna - would have been nice without them but their blue and white umbrellas made them very visible and we managed to avoid them most of the time, having the place almost to ...

... 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.

... my mate B's (B, pass me the ball) joke. Enjoy A little boy called comes into the kitchen one day and says to his mum, "Granny's got a prawn!" The mother says, "What on earth do you mean?!" The boy takes his Mother into the front room and shows him Granny, stark naked asleep on the sofa. He points to Grandmas protruding clitoris and says, "Granny's got a prawn! "His mother whispers, "That's your Grandmother's clitoris son!" To which The little boy ...

... we were greeted by another Lab called Muftah. We had been given him because the other two Labs wanted to prayer at around 13:30, the desired praying time for the dedicated Muslim. Once the camera ticket was purchased, in we went and straight to the Arch of Severus Septimus. We have seen arches dedicated to him before at Dougga and Rome, we were impressed. If it was this good at the start, it could only get better. We arrived at the bathhouses, and they were impressive. There ...