BillF Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/14/tunisia-thomas-cook-evacuates-britons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 Daylight at least appears on the Tunisian skyline. Hope the Night is really over even if I have strong doubts about the country's future. Ben Ali fled the country and left it in shambles with no worthy successor on the horizon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 And up until recently the property porn shows on TV were peddling this place as a great place to buy a holiday pad. Jeez ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 and quite a number of French elderlies settled there to retire on the cheap and take advantage of the local facilities! Good luck to them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 Just shows that there's no such thing as a 'free lunch'. Same thing goes for retiring to Greece, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 (edited) Sad. I've (non-Brit) spent a bit of holiday time there - en route to Libya or Algeria. Not my favorite spot, but pleasant-enough. And, at the time, seemingly stable. Years ago, of course. When I got holiday time! Edited January 15, 2011 by BeBop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 I imagine things will calm down. Young Tunisians finally got a little tired of 50+% unemployment and a dictator for life. I don't much blame them. Still a lovely country, and I imagine the retirees are doing ok. gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 Wonder if Algeria won't be next, although the political conjecture is rather different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Wonder if Algeria won't be next, although the political conjecture is rather different. Algeria is a different case. Civil war has been the issue there, between "modern" Islamists and the old, now established anti-French revolutionaries who've controlled the government for years. Selfishly, I hope things stay quiet in Morocco. My daughter just went there for a semester of study-abroad! gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 One of the good thing about Tunisia is that the muslim fundamentalists had a very minor presence in the country. One of the rare arab country where the women have had a strong role and non-veiled presence. Doubt that Morocco will face a fate similar to Tunisia, at least in the next few years! But I would not like to be in Egypt's Mubarak shoes right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 But I would not like to be in Egypt's Mubarak shoes right now! Yes, I have read that mayhem is predicted in Egypt over the next year or so. Damn shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 But I would not like to be in Egypt's Mubarak shoes right now! I think you might be right there. I'm glad I visited it a few years ago. It's an amazing country. gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 By coincidence was in Tunis on business in mid-December just before the rioting started. No sign of trouble then that I could detect, massive portraits of Ben Ali seemed to be everywhere. To be honest, I thought it was fairly sleepy and uninteresting as capital cities go but definitely had a secular atmosphere, I see more Burkas in my hometown of Luton! Also one of the cheapest places I have visited, a good meal with a couple of beers in a local restaurant cost around $8.00. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 But I would not like to be in Egypt's Mubarak shoes right now! Yes, I have read that mayhem is predicted in Egypt over the next year or so. Damn shame. It only took several days after the Tunisia riots for Egyptians to take to the streets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Interesting times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hmmmmm......how interesting. "The Polish Foreign Ministry said it had learned that some Polish tourists had rented vehicles to travel to cities where demonstrations were taking place. "We consider this very irresponsible and urge them not to do that," ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki said." http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/29/tourists-scrambling-to-leave-egypt-amid-protests/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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