Wednesday, March 19/2015

Museum attack by terrorists at a Tunisian museum and 25 people, almost all tourists, killed. We've actually been looking to go back to Tunisia, but flights from the UK pretty thin on the ground. British Airways stopped flying to Tunis in the autumn of 2013 and closed its office, permanently it says, citing lack of profitability. And of course lack of access adds to the lack of tourists, for which there are other causes as well, naturally. We were in Tunisia the month before the jasmine revolution began in 2010. A poor and frustrated country. There is a high rate of university graduation but over half of university graduates are unemployed, and poverty and unemployment have not improved with democracy. And this act of terrorism will do nothing to improve tourism or the economy.