I am blogging. I have the will to do nothing else today. Getting here was tremendous effort. The sun, the juice stands, the women in tight jeans and the all-eyes men. The sunglasses stalls and the derelict buildings. This is Tripoli and we have been here two days. Yesterday we ate a lot, including a three course meal in beach front fish restaurant called Silver Shore. We ordered mezze to start: grainy hummus, fatouch, olives and bread and chose our fish fresh from the fridge in the kitchen - after minutes of misunderstanding the menu , the waiter thought it best that we just pointed to the beast we wanted and I managed to say 'grilled' in french. We were the only diners. Having read in the guidebook that the resaurant closed in the early evening,
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