9/2/06
Greetings Friends, Romans and Other Furry Jedi
Well, we are currently in London visiting Avril’s COOL cousin Felicity and hubbie Paul and they’ve put us up in Richmond Hill, the swankiest neighbourhood in London just a few doors down from Mick Jagger’s house which is TOTALLY WIERD since last week we were sleeping on stinky mattresses in mud huts on the edge of a mountain in Tunisia… Man… we definitely roll more than a Rolling Stone!!!
Anyhows, after our last freaky travel blog about our Star Wars adventure, we thought we’d better write and balance it out with some good stuff about Tunisia since we were completely blown away by how interesting Tunisia is for such an unassuming country.
Tunisia is squisharoonied between Libya and Algiers in northern Africa and it is such an AMAZING place since it has a crossroad of cultures from the French, Mediterraneans, Africans, Muslims and Arabs…
Not only that, but it also has cool-as-school ancient Roman ruins, Star Wars movie sets and Islamic architecture scattered amongst its beautiful landscapes that vary from turquoise Mediterranean waters in the east, to arid desolate Saharan sands in the south.
In fact, travelling through the south of Tunisia and checking out all the sites used in the Star Wars movies was totally my GEEKBOY wet dream… especially since all the locals run around dressed in their desert cloaks like little Jawas… Continue reading
