Libya: Ancient and modern under a layer of dust

Whew! Comms – which have been patchy on my Libyan travels – are up and running again.

For a country that looks like it’s still half-built (unlike Egypt which looks like it’s half-unbuilt and going down, or so I’m told) Libya has pretty decent telecoms and infrastructure. Cellphones are ubiquitous and getting a local sim card was a doddle. (It didn’t work but that was my service provider’s fault, not the Libyans’.) Read More…