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Kairouan, Tunisia
Thursday, Jan 18, 2007

A Holy City

David Murray
2007-03-04 10:38:38

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The louage gare at Sousse is enormous. Everywhere there are signs announcing where the line of louages are going. We found the one for Kairouan and bought the tickets. I did the usual. Two Capusins. I threw them down, and as I was walking back, I noticed Lucy hanging out of the louage. They were actually waiting for me. Fuck I hate being rushed. I do like to enjoy my Capusin moments !!! It didn't take long, and we were there.

The louage gare is in a funny place, and what should have taken twenty minutes, turned into an hour. I kind of missed the turn off !!! Lucy was kind of pissed off, to say the least !!! We went back to the same hotel and grabbed a room. Straight out the door, in through the massive gates of the town walls, we went left straight away as this is where we had previously bought kilims from, and as we got a bargain last time, it was as a good as place to start. In we went, Lucy pulled out her measurements and the Izzy lovers showed us their wares and it was all shit. They decided that they would take us to their warehouse as they had more there. And just like before their selection was shit. There was one runner that was ok, so I asked the price, and Izzy lover said normally we would sell this for 350 Dinars, but as you have been here before, we will sell it to you for 220 Dinars. I looked at the guy and said, mate your a fucking idiot. I only paid 80 Dinars last time, you can jam that fucking kilim up your fucking ass, we're leaving. As we walked the price came down to 120 Dinars, and I told him to stop insulting me, so we kept on walking. We walked through the medina enjoying ourselves until a road that we were on, as usual ended up at a kilim store. We had a look, but this Izzy lover was different. All his stuff was older and nicer. We were like kids in a lollie shop. We were running around ripping things off of the walls, and laying them down. There were so many. Yes we could afford them, but ...