flickering pictures

So I got back to Montreal last Sunday and I’ve been a little delinquent in the posting department — both re: the posts from Lebanon that you’ve come to expect when I’m travelling, and re: the regular neat-o news and whatnot that you’ve come to expect when I’m home. I expect that next week […]

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June 26
We meet up again with Hafsa and Zainab, who are dressed even more liberally than before — who cross the road with us to an another touristy shop, and through a mixture of browbeating and flirtation, haggle the poor confused shopkeeper down to about a fifth of his asking price for our faux-bijoux […]

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June 24
As no taxi driver wanted to take us the apparently tiny distance from our hotel to the Tunis bus station, we set out on foot in more or less the right direction. As it turns out, what should have been a 30-minute stroll turned into a sweltering 90-minute hike with our big packs […]

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June 22
So we landed in Tunis around 10am, surrounded by French, German and Italian vacationers. The very few clothes they were wearing were all Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana, and I got the distinct feeling they were headed straight for one of Tunisia’s many coastal resort towns, which was just fine with us.
We’re just […]

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Hello from Tunisia!
I’d meant to do some fairly frequent posting from Tunisia, but I may have to go for a series of little posts, at least until I can figure out how to type on this thing without finger-pecking at two words per minute. This place is beautiful though, and from what I can […]

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