Libya

Finally modern civilisation or at least true internet access. It has been an amazing tour so far. We started with Cyrenia and once you got over the shock of ruins among the gum trees it was lovely.Very much a Greek town that got taken over by the Romans. You can see them striving to hang onto their Greek roots with bilingual inscriptions but when you see the theatre converted to an amphhitheatre you know who won. Theyy have a small but very fine collection of statues from the site. A large site, they all seem to be, and its hot and dusty but we finished up with dinner at a cave restaurant. The meals tend to all be the same. Libyan soup which ranges from tasty to fiery, how they love chili here, a sort of salad, usually lettuce or cabbage withh tomato, olives and chili, couscous, meat and harissa, a chili sauuce.
Ptolemais was next, its late but has an 80 room governors house and because of Africa dropping by two meters is very much on the beach. Apollonia which our hotel was next to is also half in the sea. Its mostly Byzantine stuff that survives there.
The hotel we are in in Tripoli has computors in the rooms. Just as well at this speed a simple message will take all night.