LBA was always, shall we say, interesting, and sometimes too exciting. There was almost always a crosswind, and often enough turbulence to shake your boots off. No duty free? Of no interest to crews, we were not entitled.
The runway in its short guise was often so limiting on RTOW that we would stage through LTN to uplift enough fuel to go further than, say, Palma. Though I do remember one day when everything fell the right way (strong wind down the runway at LBA, strong tailwind for most of the distance) when I managed to go direct to Monastir with a full load in a B737-200.
One of the less endearing attributes of RW32 was the undulations. If you floated past the proper touchdown point, you would float a long way because of the humps and dips; not a nice thing to do.