While not quite as bad as Syria or South Sudan the money situation in Libya is still pretty whacked, with you not only having to change it in a market square, but wheel barrows of money also being part of the adventure. It is though relatively easy to change money if you have local help,…
Fattoush restaurant is located in the Old Town of Tripoli and is one of the city’s established dining venues. It has been in operation for over a decade and is family-owned. The current owners manage both the kitchen and front-of-house operations. The restaurant serves Libyan cuisine alongside regional dishes from neighboring countries such as Tunisia,…
When you have not been to a city it is hard to imagine what its nightlife is like, and this is what happened to me in Algiers. What I did know though was that it had to be better than Tripoli. For there was drink, at least in places like Hotel Suisse! To be fair…
Compared to much of North Africa Algiers is a pretty decent food city. And this is not really surprising when you factor in that Algerian cuisine is pretty decent, and that they have the whole French influence thing going on. This makes “Algerian Restaurants” really unique in how eclectic their servings are, with the centrally…
OK, so while Tunis is not exactly a tourist Mecca there is enough foot flow to necessitate people deciding to make touristy restaurants that drain your money! Restaurant Essaraya is one of these places. This is something I could at least forgive if they served you a beer, but alas it is dry, with the…
Despite previously positioning myself as slightly left of Pol Pot I now eat big capitalist wanky festivals with free swag. And for all this stuff it does not go much better than the World Travel Market at the Expo Centre down at Customs House in the London Docklands. Here over 50,000 people attend each year…
