Friday, December 3/2010

At the Magasin Général we are waiting to pay when the man ahead turns and asks "Canadian?". We congratulate him on his finely-tuned ear. The couple, Billy and Margaret, are Scots, and outside we chat for a few minutes. They come to Tunisia for three months every year and are staying near the far end of the beach, north of us, at the Tej Marhaba. They're happy there and say that there are quite a few other English speakers; Scots, Irish, Welsh and English, many of them returning year after year. And, like many others, they've found that they can winter in Tunisia more cheaply than they can stay home - in their case in Glasgow.