When we came to Tunisia we believed it was a very stable Arabic country. It was, but the cost of that stability was the oppression of the people. To read more about the whys and wherefores of Tunisia's recent Jasmine Revolution you could do much worse than to read No Marmite In Tunisia where the whole situation has been very well summarised. This blog entry is our personal experience of a dramatic and sometimes scary few days which have changed Tunisia forever. Although the story really begins on 17 December 2010, we didn't really know much about what was going on until around Sunday 9 January 2011. Maybe it was us not paying enough attention to what was going on around us, or maybe it was the cover-up from the Government of
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