Lookea Beach Azur Tunis
Tunis, 30030, Tunisia
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The Gypsy Kid and a Balkan Mess
... travel from Slovenia into Italy you'd think Italy was a thrid world nation. About the worst you'll hear about the Slovenes from the rest of the crowd is that "they all think they're Germans." In case you didn't get all that I put it down in a cheat sheet and here's how I think it all works out:
Macedonians: Hate - 1. Greeks/Bulgarians (tie) Like - Serbians
Kosovars: Hate - 1. Serbians 2. Montenegrins Like - Albanians
Serbians: Hate - ...
Day trip to Tunis area
... views of Tunis Gulf and Sidi Bou Said (with a good zoom:)). You can also see the back of the president's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali mosque in Carthage (called El Abidine Mosque).
Our last site in Carthage was the Punic Carthage with the Museum. A much smaller site but again offers some interesting views of the original Punic port and of modern town of Carthage, mainly residential areas that were built up in the 70s. The main attractions here are ...
"Like Seven Inches from the Noon-day Sun..."
... I'd been initially looking for. The villas are something else - mostly ruins, but the scale is impressive. it's like a small section of a town with a road, and mosaics still in place. Of course, it all overlooks the Mediterranean and is absolutely gorgeous. Ran into an English couple who were leaving, and they gave me their map. I noticed a Tunisian woman actually turned around and gave the English lady a positively filthy look, which is ...
Without new experiences, something inside sleeps
... the Spanish. Rarely see men and women together; rarely see women except when they shop. Olives gave way to scrubby land with struggling trees; then rocky, sandy desert land. The first camels appeared, in ones and then herds. The restaurants down this way have an intriguing way with serving food. They hang a dead sheep up – sometimes just the carcass, sometimes the whole woolly thing – they have a grill and should you call in they cut off a slice or two. It ...
Museums Mosaics and Meatheads
... lot of dusty brown and not much green. I was wrong. Tunis is in the green section of Tunisia. Olive groves are everywhere and each is generally planted with the trees widely spread and in between the trees crops of wheat and barley are sown. This seems like a good use of the land ...


