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Would you go to Tunisia

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  • #92
    billy few mates
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭billy few mates


    I spent several months in Tunisia on business last year, a lot of it in that very region, Sousse, Monastir, Djerba and Sfax and I found the people to be very relaxed, sociable and friendly and many of them were fond of a beer. They actually took security very seriously in the tourist resorts with guards on every gate but the one area they couldn't secure was the beach as these are not private property so anyone is entitled to use and walk along them.
    The people I met down there would be just as abhorred by this tragedy as we are, they're muslims but they're very relaxed and Western leaning, they were very proud of the fact that they were the catalyst for the arab spring in that they were the first country to peacefully bring about democracy in the region.
    They don't have a lot in the way of oil and gas like their neighbours in Libya and Algeria have so they knew the value of the tourist industry and did everything they could to protect it. Unfortunately they couldn't protect it from this savage act and a great many of them will lose their livelihoods because of it.
    I would have no problem going back there but I wouldn't bring my family on holiday there.


  • #93
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    failinis wrote: »
    I agree with thebackwardsman and corvus maximus, grew up in the North and its still ridiculous the many people I meet from the south who still won't venture up out of fear or misinformation.

    I always wanted to see Morocco, and Tunsia (before all this happened) due to the art, fabric and pottery, and it is still on my list, if I ever have the time to go.

    It depends on your experiences I think. I live in the South and there's been a lot of people from the North here since the troubles began. Other than them being very loud and clichey:D nobody ever batted an eye about it. I never really gave things in the North much thought since it didn't directly affect my life. But my husband is English and it wasn't uncommon for him/me or both of us to get some really vicious remarks from Northern men when we were out in bars locally, even going back 10 years. So for that reason I wouldn't go on holiday in the North.


  • #94
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Laugh away.

    gracias !


  • #95
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    billy few mates wrote: »
    I spent several months in Tunisia on business last year, a lot of it in that very region, Sousse, Monastir, Djerba and Sfax and I found the people to be very relaxed, sociable and friendly and many of them were fond of a beer. They actually took security very seriously in the tourist resorts with guards on every gate but the one area they couldn't secure was the beach as these are not private property so anyone is entitled to use and walk along them.
    The people I met down there would be just as abhorred by this tragedy as we are, they're muslims but they're very relaxed and Western leaning, they were very proud of the fact that they were the catalyst for the arab spring in that they were the first country to peacefully bring about democracy in the region.
    They don't have a lot in the way of oil and gas like their neighbours in Libya and Algeria have so they knew the value of the tourist industry and did everything they could to protect it. Unfortunately they couldn't protect it from this savage act and a great many of them will lose their livelihoods because of it.
    I would have no problem going back there but I wouldn't bring my family on holiday there.

    That's why it's so tragic, a potential beacon for democracy facing years of trying to manage an open border with a failed state fulled of newly radicalised extremists.


  • #96
    billy few mates
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭billy few mates


    The problem is that although they have a couple of fairly secure border crossings between Libya and Algeria, the borders themselves are actually quite long and practically impossible to secure so porous in most areas. They were doing their best but it would be impossible to forsee this and crackdown against it without cracking down on their entire population just as if a rogue nutter in Ireland tried to do something similar.....


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