Tunisia

[zig-a-zig-ah]

Things about to get real nasty in Tunisia? Probably not another Egypt - but still pretty bad especially considering its Ramadan.

 

Out of interest, how does a country mourn for 3 days? Is it a figure of speech?

 

What now for the Arab Spring?

[K-9]

What have you done?

[Ke1t]

I knew a lad from Tunisia... Falzio was his name. Had to stop him from battering the rude bitch at the snooker place on I think it was John Street.

 

Not sure why I stopped him, really... That lassie needed a good kicking.

[dervish]

I knew a lad from Tunisia... Falzio was his name. Had to stop him from battering the rude bitch at the snooker place on I think it was John Street.

 

Not sure why I stopped him, really... That lassie needed a good kicking.

 

Ambassadors, aye was a total hole. Was there early morning ostensibly for a maths tutorial when I found out about 9/11 she was watching it on tv (if the same one).

 

Been to Tunisia, nice enough in some ways but a lot of the folk are heiders. Serious agro in shops, thought I was going to get stabbed for talking my dad out of getting a shite leather jacket. Bit harsh on a 15 year old.

[BrianFaePerth]

By all accounts they are willing to give more camels for your wife than the other swarthy lands.

[diamondsr4ever]

horrible kuntz ( the ones ive met)

[Bluto10]

just cause its near europe, dinna let that fool you, its proper bongo land.

[Bluto10]

third world shitholes can be ace holiday destinations however.

 

take india for example. spend a few white man rupees there and you can like like a king.

 

nae sure if tunisia has that sort of foreign tourist clientele though

[buchanskii]

I've been working in Egypt during the revolution, total shambles of a country.

 

The pyramids are shit, the people are cunts, the streets are filthy and roads dangerous, - Tuc Tuc's being driven my teenagers blaring their shite music in particular.

 

I wouldn't be against waging war on, and wiping out, all these desert countries, their quality of life is terrible.

[daytripping]

Never trust a Country where the men wear sandals.

 

You wouldn't catch me going to any shithole in North Africa, backwards dirty places where morals and manners don't exist.

[ebbe]

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[ebbe]

I've been working in Egypt during the revolution, total shambles of a country.

 

The pyramids are shit, the people are cunts, the streets are filthy and roads dangerous, - Tuc Tuc's being driven my teenagers blaring their shite music in particular.

 

I wouldn't be against waging war on, and wiping out, all these desert countries, their quality of life is terrible.

 

my mates working in Egypt aswell, floating between abu quir and Alexandria and he says exactly the same as you. some of the stories he's told me about local workers living in forklift trucks after the shift have been pretty horrendous and there blatent disregard for stray dogs is horrific.

[daytripping]

Could you give some examples of the blatant disregard for stray dogs?

[BrianFaePerth]

Never trust a Country where the men wear sandals.

 

Wise words to live your life by

[dave_min]

Went to Tunis in February.

 

Nice place.

 

Doubt i'd go back though.

 

The people seem confused by freedom.

 

What they need is a good honest Dictator to tell them what to do.

[buchanskii]

my mates working in Egypt aswell, floating between abu quir and Alexandria and he says exactly the same as you. some of the stories he's told me about local workers living in forklift trucks after the shift have been pretty horrendous and there blatent disregard for stray dogs is horrific.

 

I've been working in Abu Qir/Alexandria, going back out there in a couple of weeks.

 

Aye, I feel sorry for the Donkeys and horses, worked until they collapse of exhaustion. I've seen a British guy have to stop an Egyptian crane driver from crushing some stray puppies with a storage container, the prick probably knew they were there as well.

[dave_min]

I've seen a British guy have to stop an Egyptian crane driver from crushing some stray puppies with a storage container

 

I've done some hand calcs here, and I recon the Puppy:Container Weight Ratio is sufficient that the Crane driver could have proceeded safely without intervention.

[Monkey]

I've done some hand calcs here, and I recon the Puppy:Container Weight Ratio is sufficient that the Crane driver could have proceeded safely without intervention.

 

That may be so, but Health and Safety has gone to pot in North Africa in the last six months and no-one can explain why.

[The Boofon]

 

That may be so, but Health and Safety has gone to pot in North Africa in the last six months and no-one can explain why.

[Sheep#1]

Missus won a holiday there through her work last year, I thought it looked pish so told her to take her pal instead. Got caught up in riots in Cairo etc, glad I never bothered.

[Old Wing Stand]

Was in La Goulette the port of Tunis a couple of months ago one horrible dodgy place !

[Bluto10]

had a driving holiday in morocco few years back.

 

these places are great until you venture out of the one and only tourist destination in the country.

then its like stepping back in time to the dark ages; where diseases are rife and fighting in inbreeding are commonplace

[BrianFaePerth]

had a driving holiday in morocco few years back.

 

these places are great until you venture out of the one and only tourist destination in the country.

then its like stepping back in time to the dark ages; where diseases are rife and fighting in inbreeding are commonplace

 

Tup would feel at home there.

[laphroaig]

Ive been to Tunisia a few times, always left the tourist areas, travelled on local buses, used the local trains, never had any trouble.

 

Was there during the start of the arab spring, hired a car and drove all over, never got caught up in any of it.

[Ke1t]

Ive been to Tunisia a few times, always left the tourist areas, travelled on local buses, used the local trains, never had any trouble.

 

Was there during the start of the arab spring, hired a car and drove all over, never got caught up in any of it.

 

I love to go off the beaten track, largely because tourist places annoy the fuck out of me.

 

Got myself into a few scrapes over the years, but rather that than sitting on a beach for 7 days looking at the water.

 

I think Mexico was about the only place I've really been nervous, though. The quaint little slum of El Nino, just over the border. They'll rob you, rape you, set fire to you and rape you again before shooting you in the head and raping you again and cutting your head off and raping it.

 

...and that's just in their tourist information centre. Not that they had a tourist information centre.

[laphroaig]

I love to go off the beaten track, largely because tourist places annoy the fuck out of me.

 

Got myself into a few scrapes over the years, but rather that than sitting on a beach for 7 days looking at the water.

 

I think Mexico was about the only place I've really been nervous, though. The quaint little slum of El Nino, just over the border. They'll rob you, rape you, set fire to you and rape you again before shooting you in the head and raping you again and cutting your head off and raping it.

 

...and that's just in their tourist information centre. Not that they had a tourist information centre.

 

 

 

It is good to go see what a country is like, away from all the fake tourist shit.

 

Dominican republic was a bit of an eye opener at night, every fucker had guns, all the taxi drivers had a hand gun. Armed security on most buildings, big fucker with a pump action shot gun at the door of the hospital.

 

You can buy C.S gas and tasers in the chemist.

 

Walking along with my son who was 12 at the time, getting offered weed, some ching... girls... Same as everywhere on holiday tho just trying to sell you shit you dont want.

 

Scarey place if you do get lifted, they dont feed you if you are awaiting trial, so if you have no one to bring you food you are pretty much fucked.

[dave_min]

 

I love to go off the beaten track, largely because tourist places annoy the fuck out of me.

 

Very much this.

 

I've never understood the point in heading somewhere that they've tried to make be like back at home.

 

What's the point??

[Sheep#1]

Going on holiday is about relaxing, getting pished and having a good time. Don't see how dodging tooled up gangsters, looking to rob and arse rape you makes for a good holiday

 

Or maybe I'm just tame and boring compared to you daredevils.

[ollie1903]

 

 

getting offered weed, some ching... girls... Same as everywhere on holiday tho just trying to sell you shit you dont want.

 

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Only a sober homo wouldn't want weed, ching and girls on holiday.

[Ke1t]

Going on holiday is about relaxing, getting pished and having a good time. Don't see how dodging tooled up gangsters, looking to rob and arse rape you makes for a good holiday

 

Or maybe I'm just tame and boring compared to you daredevils.

 

I'm not a Daredevil, but I like to see stuff other than The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, or yet another beach with 10 billion holidaymaker squeezed into deckchairs and pedalos.

 

Even places I go tend to not be the most Touristy. Volgograd/Stalingrad had not one other tourist that I saw, and we ended up lost and slogging it through a forest in the teeming rain with the wife in tears, staggering through the mud behind me, while I screamed encouragement at her like, "Toughen the fuck up!" and "I will fucking LEAVE YOU HERE!"

 

That's not the kind of experience you're going to get wandering around Torremolinos.