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Posted on July 14, 2006 @ 5:56 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa, blog, people, travel, wordpress

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Tunisia is the northernmost country of Africa and has a warm climate, a long and gentle seacoast, salt lakes and Sahara Desert oasis, Punic and Roman archaeological sites…and all just about 1 ½ hour flight from Rome! Yet my strangest memory relates to Bizerte where my girlfriend was attending an Arabic course since long. She lived in a comfortable student hostel and I too stayed there for a few days… Actually Bizerte’s vieux port is a beautiful place to hang about, with a double Kasbah overlooking the sea: its atmosphere took me completely. I was so excited by the great mixture of greyish, white and pale-blue plasters, by intriguing little restaurants and cafes that I wanted to move at all costs and managed to convince my girlfriend. No way, she certainly wouldn’t sacrifice herself or giving up her valuable accommodation for some rather noisy and crowdie lodging… I moved anyways, and got somewhere to a negligible hotel. I glanced the rooms inside and they were fine, I paid no attention to a dark door ambiguously tagged as “comfort room”, at the dark end of the corridor. Really, all I wanted was to spend the day hanging around, I was in a hurry, you see! It was an hot midsummer day and I sipped litres of sweet mint-tea, and was in a sweat all day long, and longed for a refreshing shower in the end. So I went back to my room, removed my clothes, swiftly entered the previously unchecked bathroom just to find out that an horribly stinky, rusty and huge rubbish container was unpleasantly placed just beside the shower. Thus considering the cause of such a bizarre setting and noticing, at the same time, reckless cockroaches happily slipping along the floor, I took my sacrificial shower.

Illustration Friday’s topic is sacrifice

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8 people have left comments

I love how you always have a personal story to go with the topic. It is so wonderful that you are documenting your adventures for the rest of us to see and read! Great story as usual, and fitting illustration!

Amy Zaleski wrote on July 15, 2006 - 12:46 am CEST

lol the sacrifical shower uhmm makes u ask ur self just how spoild we are? nice illo

michael dailey wrote on July 15, 2006 - 6:51 am CEST

What a beautiful interplay of drawing, shapes, textures and colors.

Bron Smith wrote on July 15, 2006 - 8:10 am CEST

I allways see your pics like indonesian shadow-puppets! Your style is unique, i really love your drawings, (and storys too!)
I live beside the north-african coast, hygiene is a special theme there, because the water is so poor, even some wash themselves with sand..

uvor wrote on July 15, 2006 - 10:38 am CEST

I am afraid of what is in that big barrel!!! This is a intriguing tale and I love your details in the illo, the tiles, the round and beautifully colored barrel, the little bugs underfoot and your self portrait are all so beautifully rendered even if it was in squalor…

valgalart wrote on July 15, 2006 - 6:12 pm CEST

I bet your girlfriend shamelessly grinned from ear to ear hearing that ;) The tiles on your illustration turned out terrific. And that necklace too, its of interesting shape.

cristosova wrote on July 16, 2006 - 6:13 pm CEST

Och! What a nightmare . . . Usually, I’m hankering for a vacation, but that story and illustration actually makes me glad I’m not traveling right now!

Roz wrote on July 17, 2006 - 6:28 pm CEST

Oh my - that is just yucky!! But the illustration is amazing as always! Love the cockroaches!!

tiffini elektra x wrote on July 26, 2006 - 5:03 am CEST

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