05 September 2011 by Tristan Gooley
The news that rebel forces are pushing south in Libya, has taken me back to the short time I spent in Sebha in February and March 2009.
Sebha has a domestic airport and I was using it as my gateway; it allowed me to jump from the coastal capital of Tripoli into deeper, Saharan Libya. The foreign correspondents are now feeding back items about the importance of the tribes in the area. This is something that resonates for me, because although I only had the opportunity for a few hours in the area before heading away from the town and into the desert itself, the impression it left me with was strong and one I can only describe as ‘indigenous intimacy’.
The airport itself is tiny, but was full of almost exclusively men, all in traditional dress, who appeared to be kissing one another incessantly. There was not one hint…
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Tags: desert, libya, libyan sahara, Sebha, tripoli |
08 January 2010 by Tristan Gooley
Ok, this snow has been fun, but…
… now we’re so low on heating oil, firewood, coal and food that the sense of humour reserves are looking a bit depleted! School’s off the menu and the kids refuse to play in the snow anymore as they’re bored of it now. They go mental after being cooped up inside for this long, so my wife has inflated the boxing bag that they were given for Christmas in the optimistic hope that they might stop hitting each other and us.
Drastic evasive action needed and so I went on a crazy solo excursion (after spending an hour digging the car out of the snow and defrosting it). I returned with coal, a little wood and food. The car got me there and nearly all the way back, but I needed a spade and lots of gravel to make it back up our…
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Tags: fossil, libyan sahara, off road snow |
26 March 2009 by Tristan Gooley
Tags: desert experience, libyan sahara |
The news that rebel forces are pushing south in Libya, has taken me back to the short time I spent in Sebha in February and March 2009.
