I googled it, so it must be true. When looking up “bruised ribs” I opted for the NHS site because if there’s one thing working in the UK taught me, it’s that they vet the text of these things scrupulously… not always accurately but definitely scrupulously. I am definitely feeling a pain when I breathe, […]
Chewie, We’re Home You’d think after all that’s come before I’d know better than to listen to the tour guides and to be mindful of any suggested/stated times. Yesterday Resa advised me I needed to be at the airport at least three hours before my flight… even for one as early as my 7:20 am […]
Did I expect anything different? After a restless night of thumping techno music coming through the paper-thin walls and the door slammings of comings and goings of the adjacent rooms, I finally gave up and got up. I went to get breakfast at 6 AM, the time I was told the night before during my […]
How we got to today’s itinerary: a series of emails in all their typo filled glory that followed from the one I posted last night. March 3, 2018 – 3:55 PM Tunisian Time. Email from Joshua, Tour Operator Dear Kevin, We are very sorry to hear about your negative experience during the tour. We will […]
This isn’t going to end the way I thought it would. In fact it ended quite poorly and I find myself feeling disappointed and a bit cheated. *** We are driving along National Road Number 3, headed toward Tunis. We’re just outside Gafsa and tt’s already been an hour or so of driving from Torzeu. […]
I’m having an off day and I think my tour guides can tell. I had some language barrier issues with this hotel and thus didn’t realize breakfast was included. I just thought I’d skip it until Mohammed and Mondher showed me where the large dining area was hidden in plain sight. It was behind a […]
It was a very weird night at the Lar Homestead. A Chinese tour group turned up around 11:30 PM and seemingly filled the courtyard. They tried to enter my room as well, I guess they figured they had bought out the place. But that was the least of my problems sleeping. I fell down one […]
It’s not my fault… Or, well, maybe it is. Even though they run fairly consistently, the ferry takes some time. It’s taking quite a while to get through the queue to get onboard. We got today’s itinerary started at least 40 minutes late as I wanted to go back and reshoot at Toshe Station and […]
Today’s itinerary: Tosche Station, Obi Wan Kenobi’s House, and The Mos Eisley Cantina. *** For Djerba these days, the biggest business is tourism. There’s still a hue agriculture industry though. There are olive trees everywhere and Tunisian Olive Oil is a highly regarded commodity. Though I’m seeing palm trees, the country’s dates are really grown […]
My fellow AirBNB’er is still waiting for his UN visa to work on the ground in Libya. In the meantime he’s working remotely from the Tunisian office and needed a place to stay short term while he worked out a longer term plan. Fascinating guy, a shutterbug par excellence, and yet another reminder that while the […]