HOLLAND
GERMANY
AUSTRIA
ITALY
TUNISIA
Nights were spent in italicized locations.
2000 October 30 : Monday
| Sep 20 |
Portland |
| Sep 21 | Charles
de Gaulle, Delft |
| Sep 22 | Amsterdam,
Delft |
| Sep 23 | Delft,
Rotterdam, Stromberg |
| Sep 24 | Dinkelsbühl,
Munich |
| Sep 25 | Schloss
Neuschwanstein, Munich |
| Sep 26 | Munich,
Solnhofen, Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
| Sep 27 | Rothenburg
ob der Tauber, Salzburg |
| Sep 28 | Berchtesgaden,
Salzburg |
| Sep 29 | Salzburg,
Vienna |
| Sep 30 | Vienna,
night train |
| Oct 01 | Venice |
| Oct 02 | Venice,
Verona, Florence |
| Oct 03 | Florence,
Pisa, Cinqe Terre (Monterosso) |
| Oct 04 | Cinqe
Terre: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso |
| Oct 05 | Cinqe
Terre (Monterosso), Rome: Coliseum, Forum |
| Oct 06 | Palestrina,
Rome: St. Peter's, Vatican Museum |
| Oct 07 | Rome:
Pantheon, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountaine, Palatine Hill, etc. |
| Oct 08 | Santa
Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta, Naples |
| Oct 09 | Pozzouli,
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta, Naples |
| Oct 10 | Positano |
| Oct 11 | Mt.
Vesuvius, Pompeii, Positano |
| Oct 12 | Paestum,
Positano |
| Oct 13 | Positano,
Amalfi, Ravello, night train |
| Oct 14 | Taormina |
| Oct 15 | Catania,
Palermo, Trapani |
| Oct 16 | all-day
ferry, Tunis |
| Oct 17 | Tunis,
Thuburbo Majus, Zaghouan, Kairouan |
| Oct 18 | Kairouan |
| Oct 19 | Mactaris,
Sufetula, Kairouan |
| Oct 20 | Kairouan,
Monastir, El Jem, Houmt Souk |
| Oct 21 | Ajim,
Medenine, Ksar Hadada, Tataouine |
| Oct 22 | Ksar
Ouled Soltane, Douirat, Chenini, Foum Tataouine, Matmata |
| Oct 23 | Matmata,
Douz, Chott El D'Jerid, Tozeur |
| Oct 24 | Sidi
Bouhlel, Chott El Gharsa, Tozeur |
| Oct 25 | Chebika,
Tamerza, Mides, Seldja Gorge, Tozeur |
| Oct 26 | Sidi
Bouhlel, Chott El D'Jerid, Tozeur |
| Oct 27 | Chott
El Gharsa, Chott El D'Jerid, Sidi Bouhlel, Tozeur |
| Oct 28 | Chott
El D'Jerid, Sidi Bouhlel, Tozeur |
| Oct 29 | Dougga,
Sidi Bou Said, La Marsa |
| Oct 30 | La Marsa,
Rome |
| Oct 31 | Rome,
Atlanta, Portland |
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| ©2001-2008 by Mitch Darby - all rights reserved. | |
I awoke to my final day in Africa with two goals: get the car cleaned and find my plane.
01) LA MARSA | This
was the view from my hotel room. That's the Mediterrainean in the distance.
The brown sludge you see above it is what I like to call "polluted
haze."
02) LA MARSA | My
hotel's patio.
03) LA MARSA | Thank
you VISA.
04) LA MARSA | This
is the front yard. All the globes and tree trunks are lit up at night
(like Christmas in summer). It was very pretty, yet I was very tired and
sick, so I didn't manage to get a night photo.
05) SIDI BOU SAID | A
postcard. I had hoped to stay in this little upper class suburb of Tunis,
but there was only one non-luxury hotel and they only had a triple room
left (for a triple's price). I ended up paying just as much for a single
room in neighboring La Marsa - but it was nicer!
I did succeed in getting the car cleaned. It was one big mudball - inside and out. But the local service station cleaned it thoroughly and even filled the errant tire for just five Dinars (about $2.50). It was a much better job that any car wash in America could do. I suspect they've had a lot of practice!
I also managed to find the airport and was very impressed with the guy from Hertz who helped me with my heavy bags. He got me a baggage cart (which saved my physical being enormously!) and even directed me to the check-in counter.
Within a few hours, I was back in Rome and searching (again) for a hotel. The Delta counter is only staffed in the mornings and their partner Air France, could only take me to Paris (deja vu!) so my plan on returning home a day early gave way to finding a hotel. After failing to find the Hilton (which is right there!), I booked a local place through the tourist agency. A van came and got me (with others) and drove us a few miles to the Hotel Cancelli Rossi - the Roman equivilant of a Holiday Inn - near the airport. I was about 45 minutes outside of Rome's downtown, so my evening consisited of a hot shower (needed!), a nice dinner (fish!), and an hour or so of Italian MTV in my room (baffling!).