October 18, 2022 Travel day to Tunis, Tunisia and a walkabout in the town.
5 AM at the Frankfurt airport, so not many people. We checked in online yesterday and had our boarding passes on our phones. This morning it was just a matter of using the self check baggage drop, through security and out the gate.
Just had to show this as i was amused by what is the upper right corner of this hand dryer.
It’s Dyson doing a little advertising of some of their products.
Today’s walk to the gate was much easier than the last time. Then we were leaving from gate 69, the last gate on the concourse No. 69. Today we were at gate 15.
Breakfast is served. You can easily guess which was mine and which was Ms. Healthy Eater’s.
Always a selfie.
We had a connection in Munich, also on Lufthansa. It turned out the person right in front of us was also on our OAT tour. Small world.
Off to Tunisia selfie.
A final look at Germany.
The Alps?
The Mediterranean .
The coast of North Africa.
On approach to the Tunis airport.
Everything at Frankfurt was done electronically. At the Tunis airport it was several with pieces of paper showing what things went where.
Just confirming we really did arrive in Tunis.
It didn’t take long to discover that lane markers and traffic lights were just suggestions for drivers as to what they might want to do.
Welcoming drink at the hotel. It had a taste we were not used to. Easy to tell which one was mine.
Welcoming fruit bowl in our room. Those dates were the best I’ve ever eaten.
The other 7 people on the tour were arriving early this evening so the four of us who were here set out to see the old city with our guide. What follows are a number of photos to give readers a sense of what we saw and experienced.
Yes, it is a synagogue.
Mural about women’s rights.
Sidewalk fruit vendor.
Even Linda ate one. I’ll say they were very good, but messy to eat.
Promenade
Clock tower.
Many buildings reflect the fact that Tunisia was once a French colony. Our guide said that the older people often still can speak French, but the young people only learn English as their second language and can’t speak or understand any French.
Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul.
Interior which was completely refurbished because of a visit in the 1990’s by Pope John Paul.
Of course we had to take a photo of Linda sitting in the sign.
This woman had two bags filled with plastic bottles. We have been told to only drink bottled water in Tunisia, and from the number of empty bottles laying around on the streets it looks like most everyone else does.
There are a lot of sidewalk vendors.
Our guide said meat is the most expensive food.
This was all the fresh meat in this large store.
Liquor is readily available.
One Dinar is equivalent to 31 cents, so the Old Lady gin was $10 a bottle.
This vendor sold incense and other potions.
I always enjoy talking to people like this through our guides.
The strips of bark are used to clean your teeth and mouth.
In the end he gave me a piece of the bark even though I never asked for one, then posed for this photo. That smile of his is absolutely genuine and it why we enjoy traveling to all these countries around the world. People are all the same where ever they reside.
We took a taxi back to the hotel. What follows are a few of the things we saw on the ride.
60% of all cars in the entire country are in the city of Tunis.
The three courses at dinner. We are going to enjoy eating in Tunisia.
