I’m in trouble
with E for not sending an S update so here we are…. :)
Looking back
through the blog it would appear my last update was from 2016 in Syria! I
thought I had done something more recent so E’s pestering is warranted….
I left Syria in
December 2017 as I was asked to return to Libya to restart a project that I was
on between 2012 and 2014. We “mothballed” the program at the end of 2014
because the security situation wasn’t great but now things are better so we
restart! The program is the normal stuff I do – blowing things up!!
Before
deploying to Libya fulltime I spent a few months working on the program but
based in Tunisia in a small town next to the sea called La Marsa. E came to
visit twice and we both liked it there. It was an unusual place for me to live
as there was a cinema, restaurants and a pub! A very different lifestyle to my
normal work places, and a pleasant change. I think E put up lots of photos so I
won’t replicate but I’ll be visiting again and will try and find some different
places to take pictures of.
I’m working for
the same organisation as E again, which can make our personal lives easier. I
had to work in Lyon for a month so was able to be at home and continue E’s
education in how to stock a fridge correctly, as well as teach her when to
throw rotten food away, but most importantly we were able to spend some time
together in a normal environment. That might sound boring but it did me the
world of good apart from when the flat got burgled when I was at work and E was
in Tajikistan as she has previously described, an unpleasant episode, but in
the past now. It’s too easy to enjoy life in Lyon;
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| Cycling up the riverbank |
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French
attack Goose
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So, I’m now in a
city called Misrata in the west of Libya where I’m setting up the new project.
I lived in the same city before so I know lots of people – some good friends
and nothing seems to have changed much.
It’s not the prettiest place and it’s a complicated place to work but
it’s not far from France. J
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Tawergha
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Tawergha is an
abandoned town about 40km away from Misrata and was formerly home to 50000
people who are now living in IDP camps but who are now about to return home. It’s
my job to make sure there isn’t any nasty stuff lying around when they get
there.
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Nasty
Stuff!
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So four weeks of nasty stuff to go before
holidays! I’m taking E to the little island I come from and she’s quite
excited………
I’m
sure E will do an update on this particular adventure… J
