DAY 15 – BULLA REGIA – RUINS ROMAN I
As it turns out Mounir, Yousef and Omar are pretty likeable guys who speak a smattering of English between them. We are able to discuss quite a few topics like: my job as a totally broke labourer in London, their jobs and families, sport, politics and what’s wrong with women these days eh?
Spend day getting lost in Tunis and finding out that the highly recommended Bardo Museum in Tunis is closed for no apparent reason. Instead decide to visit the roman ruins at Bulla Regia near Jendouba a 4 hour train ride away. Very cool but all the really good mosaics and statues have been relocated to the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
In Jendouba I run into a couple of excellent taxi drivers. One speaks English and takes me where I want to go at a very reasonable price and the other is just as good AND he sets my up with some excellent cheap accommodation, which isn’t in the Lonely Planet. I definitely like Tunisians more than Moroccans.
