Night in Tunisia

Dougga and back on track...

Hey there all, just thought I'd follow up that last rather pessimistic email with a little happier note.

This weekend Tiara and I headed out with Wifak, Slim and a special guest of ENDA (the place where Tiara's working) Jean-Puis. I hope I got the spelling right, in any case he works for the MixMarket - www.mixmarket.org - a big microfinance deal. We were headed for the old Roman Ruins of Dougga, apparently once the grainery of the Roman Empire. It was two hours out of Tunis - almost all the way across the country, I don't think I'll ever get used to that - and up in the mountains/hills. Actually, the whole area was gorgeous and reminded Tiara and me of the Fraser Valley back home in BC.

We got there, paid a nominal fee to enter the heritage site and take photos, and were basically let loose on it. Coming from Canada with it's "look, at a distance, and don't touch" culture around heritage, it was a little odd to go wandering around these ruins at our leasure, with no controls. Ruins that are from around 200 BC, if I remember right. Maybe it was 200 AD - whatever the case it was lots older than Canada, and than the English language, and than the Christian Bible...

We took a smattering of photos and will be uploading those shortly.

Did you catch that? We'll be uploading them SHORTLY!!! Yay! We have a computer we can use to download and upload our photos. It's exciting and fantastic.

It may take until Wednesday before we get a few pictures up, but not much longer.

Anyhow, I'm outta here as I have to eat or I'm going to waste away. Fresh bread, fresh fruit, milk, fresh cheese and fresh olives...

posted by Loren @ 9:30 a.m.