Lots to catch up on but we wanted to send a quick up-to-date update to let you know we made it safely to the other side of the Med. Whilst the rest of the world is having travel troubles (thinking of all our friends currently stuck in far flung exotic locations... Granada? LA? San Fran? Are you back yet?) it seems for once ironically we are the only ones able to move.
We both felt nervous leaving the ease of Europe behind and that now there would be a full day of sea between us and everyone we love. Adventure can't be plain sailing, even if the Med was as smooth as glass for our 23 hour crossing.
Customs only took two hours to get through instead of the six we suspected it might. In fact they didn't root through our stuff but just peered inside. They were far too busy taking apart all the vastly overloaded cars driven by Tunisians who had bought and brought back half of Italy's second and first hand stock of a bizarrly diverse range of goods: rusty bicycles, ladders, fridges, sofas, children's toys, scaffolding....
Now, sat in an internet cafe with high speed connection (even if the non-qwerty keyboard is making typing torturous), after a delicious mint tea and with the truck parked opposite a police station which the chatty local coppers insisted on even though this is a pleasant middle class seaside suburb of southern Tunis, and, suddenly we are both a little more relaxed. Less anxious about what we are doing and where we are, yet missing everyone still.
Volcano permitting, we'll have our next visitors joining us on Saturday.
