Sunday, May 19, 2013

Day Trip to Zaghouan

Away day in Zaghouan!
On the way there we visited the Roman ruins of

In Zaghouna we visited the Water Temple and the shrine of
Then we went back to the restaurant,where we earlier had a break of cool refreashing citronade,coffee and special biscuits from Zaghouan,for a very later lunch.




































Tunisian Police Clash with Salafists Protesters!

Tunisian police clash with Salafists

Saturday, May 18, 2013

New Art Exhibition at Mille Feuilles

On Saturday evening I went to the opening of a new art exhibition 'Libre Parcours' at the bookshop 'Mille Feuilles'.The paintings made me think of carpet designs and when I bumped into the artist  Mona Belhaji ,this morning in the gallery, it seemed she was inspired by carpet designs but also by the idea of a person's identity;we all have an identity and Mona mentioned that 'though some Tunisians said the ex-president Ben Ali  had robbed them of their identities our identity is ours and will exist whether it's the past or the future'.

Mona explained that in some of the paintings there are symbols related to the towns of Gafsa and Gabes
and  the continent Africa ,in one painting the symbol representing man and in another two hands joined together representing 'a person's hand in his brother's'.

Mona said that one of the paintings took about a week to complete.
The time that she spends on them probably depends on the elements that go into the work of art.

Some of the paintings seem like you could be travelling into outer space or looking down on
the urban sprawl of a modern city.
















Thursday, May 16, 2013

David Beckham Retires!

First Sir Alex Ferguson and now David Beckham,today David announced his retirement!
He's the only English footballer to have championships in 4 different countries!

click Beckham retires for more information!

Beckham's last game!