Sunday, November 28/2010

Hard to believe this is our last full week in Tunisia. Time to start thinking of side trips. Sousse is a good place to use as a base. It's not only on the long railway line that extends from Tunis to the south, but the station is in the city centre, only a couple of blocks from our hotel. It could hardly be more convenient.

Have begun reading John Mortimer's memoir - Clinging to the Wreckage. As entertaining as Mortimer usually is. Interestingly though, Wikipedia mentions that he was asked to leave Oxford after his second year as a result of a compromising leter sent to a sixth form schoolboy. Mortimer does reefer to emerging from a schooldays world of vague homosexual romance, but neglects to mention going down from Oxford prematurely.

Strong winds today, but surprisingly warm ones. The temperature is 18 when we get up and rises slightly during the day. The palm tree by our balcony is four storeys high, but while its fronds whip round its trunk scarcely moves. It must have an amazing root system - like an iceberg's underwater bulk.