El Jem with Xiyun

We saw the coliseum and museum in El Jem and ate in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant after the first restaurant we went to tried to give us an outrageously priced menu. Too bad I had eaten there twice before and knew the correct prices! The restaurant we ate at was decent though so no great loss.

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Here we are getting ready to descend into the depths of the subterranean world of the coliseum.

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We ran into some water underground. There were also a bunch of Russian tourists roaming around.

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There is lots of graffiti scrawled on the walls of El Jem. This is just some of it.

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Yeah there’s that victory sign!

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Incoming tourists from a Land Cruiser convoy.

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Yes, that’s a horse, and that’s a woman. They’re copulating. Xiyun was very amused by it. She wants that statue for herself.

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The chunk of marble turned out to be too heavy for Xiyun to carry away.

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Lick that mosaic!

Xlendia

We stopped off in Xlendia for lunch. It’s a pretty little town at the bottom of a canyon where the creek meets the sea. We were there on a particularly rough day where the swells were lined up just right to come through the narrow mouth of the harbor and smash head-on into the town. On really stormy days, water must come a good distance up into town!

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Gozo’s secondary service distribution method.

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Just like in Tunisia, guys sit around watching the tourists go by.

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