Oh my God!I am in guided tour hell, if only there was another way to see this country.I am staying in beautiful hotels, have to follow a guide around everywhere, have guides at all the sites, included meals and an air conditioned bus.I would trade it all in for bush camping in the desert, cooking my own food, getting lost everywhere I go, good company and most of all, a hot, noisy, bumpy truck!

Our first stop this morning was more war cemetaries, we went to a larger commonwealth cemetery and then onto Fig Tree hospital, which was no more than an enclosure with a tree in the middle, with a cave at its feet.It was difficult to believe that operations and surgery had been performed in such a place.

We left Tobruk and drove for about three hours to the town of Derna, once there we followed the guide through a pretty boring souq for about 15 minutes, before getting back on the bus and then walking around a different part of town for another 15 minutes.The town was nothing special and it all seemed pretty pointless.

We drove for another half an hour and had a picnic lunch by the sea, this was the longest part of the day, we sat there for about two hours, which was entirely too long.We sat there for a long time, listening the guide ply us with pro Libyan propaganda, including telling us that the oldest mummy ever found was found in Libya and was more than 7000 years old.I nearly choked on my food.In the last two days I have noticed the guide putting down the Egyptians and trying to outdo them at every given moment.Honestly, I wish he would just give up,I didn't come to Libya to listen to bulls***, (seems I have no option there) I came to Libya to see what Libya has to offer, its not in competition with Egypt for my tourist dollars.

The guide expected us to swim, but the spot he had picked was water breaking over rocks and there was a rip in the sea that no one would have escaped had we gone in.When he asked me why I wasn't going in, I said "If I go in there I will get dragged all the way back to Alexandria!"

We left the lunch spot and drove to an old ruined Byzantine church which was in a spectacular location overlooking the Mediterranean.We looked around for a while before going to a much older ruined church overlooking where Gadhafi's sons had their own private harbour.

After traveling for another hour we reached the city of Al-Bayda, where we would be staying for the next two nights.The out skirts of the place looked like one of the maps in COD (that's Call of Duty, for all you non gamers) there were derelict buildings that looked like they had been blown up, debris was everywhere, over turned burnt out cars, razor wire in the streets and not a person to be seen.My first reaction was, you must be joking.It got better the further in we went, but it still looked a bit untamed.

The hotel is a big unmarked blue building with nice rooms and cable TV.I did have to go out to get some dinner, and went to this pizza place, where I actually went into the kitchen to show them what I wanted on my pizza and then watched them fire the pizza with a kind of flame thrower.The young guy behind the counter seemed nice and we attempted to have a conversation in half English, half Arabic and the universal language (pointing at things)

I went back to the hotel with my pizza and stopped off on the way to get some drinks and junk food.They have lemon Fanta here and its really nice!I stayed in the hotel room for the rest of the night watching movies on cable.