Last Thursday our ship Kristina Regina arrived to Tripoli harbour some 2 miles away from city center. Soon I was lucky again then a friendly PR-chef of the harbour , Fathi, offered me a free ride to the city plus an extra sight seeing tour with good advises. The strange news were that in Tripoli it is principally very easy to learn to know a nice lady, if you would live there , and get involved romantically, as in no other arab country,even the women mostly still dress traditionally on the streets. Tripoli is an interesting modern city but all signs in arabic letters and most people speaking only very little english, if at all.
Next day we had a tour to Leptis Magna, probably the best survived ruins of Roman empire in the world. This city was built just 2000 years ago on a much older Fenician trading port.
Absolutely magnificient!
Saturday morning we sailed into La Vallettan quay in the heart of the old town. The best of it was that the most elegant bars and restaurangs very just outside 20 meters from our dear boat
but a couple of hundred meters to walk trough the harbour gate and unformal security control.
On Sunday morning I managed to get opened at 9.00 a big TV screen in Hard Rock's Cafe to see the Formula I race ,even the bar serving hours started just at 10 am.
After the race I met a nice German gentleman with a bit Telly Savalas look and smile.
We onboard had been looking with great interest some days earlier in the high sea some miles away from us a tug boat towing an oil rigg. This man was the capitano of the tug, Peter Deinhardt from Bavaria. He insisted to be my host, and after some beers we had lots and lots of double Cuba libres and laughs before we decided for retirement.
Thank you Peter, when you'll read this, do remember, dass nächstes Mal ich derBoss bin, und Du der Gast.
This morning we found ourselves in Sicily, at Messina harbour. I had one hour walk, one beer
and came back here . Second Easter day , and this city was dead and quite uninteresting.
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