Mosaics

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Am I getting use to living in Izzyville? Maybe. I missed the call for pray. Always good to see. Once up and packed, we headed for the nearest café for my Capusin hit. Once I had two down me, the louage gare beckoned us. There was one guy going to both Gabes and Sfax. He was our bitch. So we dumped the bags and waited for it to fill up. For once, the bitch left without the louage being full of Izzy lovers. We had three seats left and I thought he would fill them as we drove, but he didn't. At Gabes, one Izzy lover jumped out, and we continued on our way to Sfax. Halfway, we stopped for a Capusin. I like this guy. An hour later, we were thrown into the crowd at the Sfax gare. We found our new bitch that would take us to Sousse, and I did my usual celebration. Two Capusins !!! Our louage was god awful slow. We did see El Jem again. Eventually, we arrived in Sousse.

It's about a K away, so we walked. It's not hard, just head for the walls of the medina, and they're pretty fucking huge. Once in, to get to the hotel, you have to go through the tourist souq. I still don't get it. They only ever speak to me in Italian or Spanish. Today we were from Iceland. Much easier. At the bottom, we went to the same hotel, was given the same room, and then walked out. Next door is the Ribat, which is the old fort. This time, there was nobody there, nice and peaceful except the big fuck off mermaid in the middle which kind of fucked up all photo opportunities. We climbed the tower and took photos of the Mosque. It is nice to be here with no tourists around. Down and out we went, into the locals souq. Lucy wanted leblai dishes as they're the right size for laksa. We looked in a few shops and then found them. If you get off the tourist trail, things become much cheaper. It was also great to wander the lanes of the medina. You can't really get lost. There is either a deadend or the lane will eventually lead back to either the locals or tourists souq. Once the walk had finished, we were standing pretty close to the largest Mosque in Sousse, when there was a huge screaming from a cat. It was a female and she was on heat and she was surrounded by at least five Toms. One jumped on and grabbed her neck. He was trying to get in, and then another jumped on and attempted to get in. She had a Tom biting either side of her neck. We also figured that she was the town bike of cats, so we took the photos and moved on.

Next morning, we packed and walked out. We found the bike/cat getting another seeing to by some different cats and we walked up to the Archeological museum. Inside are some awesome mosaics. We walked around, gazing and remarking how much better this was compared to the one in Labya. Couldn't be to hard really. One thing that does amaze me is that in certain sections of the museum the floor is mosaics removed from a villa. You are walking on what is essentially a nearly 2000 year old floor. It freaked me out the first time and it did so again. I also can't help but go up and touch the mosaics that are on the wall. There are no signs and I know I shouldn't but it is like the old wet paint sign. We know it's wet, but we still touch. Fuck knows why, but then again, we are only human after all. We left the main part and went up on the walls to have one last look over the medina. It certainly is crowded down there, kind of makes me think how lucky I was to be born in Australia. With those final thoughts, we grabbed our bags and headed towards the gare. We only had a short trip to Kairouan, a place we are both looking forward to.

Capusins drunk - 3

Capusins total - 22

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