Hannibal did it by Elephant but I find it easier by aircraft – crossing the Alps that is.
In this photo from 1991 everything points to this being a flight from Malta to London. The aircraft is a Boeing 737, the light on the mountains tells me I'm either flying west early in the morning or east late in the day.
My flights out of the UK were usually in the afternoon. My flights from Malta were usually the first London flight of the day. All of which make me believe I took this on a morning flight from Malta to London having overnighted in Malta from Tripoli.
Sometimes on the Malta layovers, by the time we got to the hotel there was only three or four hours before we'd needed to head back to the airport once more so it seemed almost pointless to go to sleep. Some would hang out in the nightclub attached to the hotel, some would head off to the 24-hour cafe for a ‘pork out' since you couldn't get pork in libya (obviously) and some would try to get a few hours sleep and some would try to do all three.
When I first started traveling to libya we might take a British Caledonian or Libyan Arab Airlines direct flight but once those were halted we'd usually go through Malta but occasionally Amsterdam (my favorite), Marseille, or Zurich. In the end, the UN didn't allow anyone to fly in or out. I once took the ferry to Malta from Tripoli which was super chaotic and after that, we'd drive to Djerba or Tunis in Tunisia and fly from there.
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