Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: tripoli

The policeman patrolling the parked cars was very insistent that I shouldn't take any photos here. There was no other sense that wandering around was discouraged for foreigners, and no other interference with photography, so I can only presume he was proud of his town and worried it was a bit shabby here. I acknowledged his discouraging waves and made a phone call for a while; he hung around so I had to very much "grab" this shot. To make up for it, I can report that it's actually a really nice place to wander around!

The new colour-cycling tower block of the Marriot, and a crumbling velodrome.

Waiting for yet another meeting with the Al Quds convoy administration. The car to collect us at 9:30 didn't turn up. In fact two guys turned up at 9:00 and smoked cigarettes at me while I ate breakfast. It later turned out that they were there in place of the meeting with their boss (why couldn't they just have told us?) In a further typically awkward twist, the Colonel who had been going to arrange this hotel for us (at the government's expense, very kindly) had gone on Hajj that day. So, it turns out it's true: for everything else , there's Mastercard.

Lobby of hotel facing onto Green Square* in Tripoli. * Renamed Martyr Square, 22 August 2011!