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Sunday, Jan 21, 2007

The Last Bit of Tunisia

David Murray
2007-03-04 10:40:44

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Sometimes when I am in a different country to the one that I live in, I always ask myself why do we have certain rules. In Holland, you can fill up your car at the servo and buy a slab of beer. Kind of puts a different perspective on filling up. As the louage drove away, we stopped at the servo. The bitch kept his motor running whilst the Izzy lover doing the filling, smoked !!! As I am still alive, I take it that it is ok to smoke when filling up your car.

Once in Tunis, we walked away and then we were in Place du Barcelone. The main TGM stop and loads of hotels. We found one that suited our requirements and then took a walk up to the medina. It's the biggest in Tunisia, and use to be surrounded by walls, but they were blown up a long time ago. There are a few gates remaining, and the touts always gather around the main one. We entered, and nothing has changed. We walked around and then arrived at the centre, where there is a large Mosque. As I had the wrong camera, we didn't enter. We kept walking until we were in the Government area. We were taking some photos, when all of these kids started up with, bonjoir, bonjourno, guten tag, hello. I gave them an aslaam, and kept walking, but they followed. Then they surrounded me, speaking in various languages. There were both boys and girls, getting closer, kind of like in Bangladesh, but less of them. Still, it felt like I was being anally raped, and as I am a virgin, I made a run for it. I must protest my virginity !!! As dinner time approached, we went looking for the place we ate at before. No Latin script, just Arabic. Times change, and now there was a menu in French. I think it's called progress.

In the morning, we jumped on a TGM and caught it to a different louage gare. We wanted to see the Roman ruins of Dougga. Lucy stayed in the louage whilst I downed two Capusins. Once in, we sat for over an hour, waiting for it to fillup, and then we got sick if waiting ...