Roy returned back from Calgary over the weekend ... sure glad I wasn't traveling with him .... days of traveling and only really one day in Calgary! Hardly seems worth it if you ask me. So with Roy back, we have begun to carve out a new routine for ourselves. Some time at the "Lac Club", their name for the sports facility in the Berge du Lac area here, and continuing to work at getting this new apartment furnished. Then evenings either going out for dinner (there are many restaurants in this area!) or munching on some locally grown foods at "home". I must say that the vegetables one can get here are absolutely the most delicious I have ever eaten anywhere. If our vegies at home could taste like these here, we wouldn't need to take so many vitamin supplements! The fruits aren't bad either, and still loving those olives! So no shortage of great, healthy food.
A few more furniture choices made. I keep harping on that as shopping here is nothing like back home. They all say "yes", even if they really mean "no". There is only immediately available, we will find someone who can get it for you, or we can build it as you like. And it can take over an hour for a novice shopper (me) to figure out their "yes" to really mean one of the later two types. The hardest room to do has been the den, which means purchasing a desk and chair. Now you would think this wouldn't be too hard, but it seems that the only furniture the people of Tunisia have need of is bedroom and living room. I bet I have gone to over a dozen stores this week do you think I can find one that sells desks? And when yesterday I thought I hit the jackpot ... a whole store dedicated to office furniture .... well it was just that ... their desks were the size of a room itself! Many metres long, a few meters wide and filled with all sorts of "secret" doors and compartments. So eventually I decided to go with the third style of "Yes" with a store, and they will build one for me - 3 weeks ... hmm, I wonder again if it will be a real three weeks or a Tunisian three weeks .... only time will tell on that one.
Le Grande Bleu Restaurant:
Anyhow, I think I have figured out how to add some attachments to this blog. So here's two taken from Jamel's favourite restaurant. It overlooks the Mediterranean and is one of the most desired spots for locals to go for seafood. That's Jamel (a work colleague of Roy's) in the second photograph. He's a most amazing person to spend time with, very wise and very easy to talk to.
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