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Ferry from #Marseille to #Tunisia, ~25 hours.

About 100€ per person with sleeping in chairs/on floor, so economically only makes sense if you have a car or loads of baggage. But you'd miss the pace and romance of the sea 🌊 Price seems to vary little with time.

Had to think multiple times of the people trying to make the opposite journey and the lives lost trying #noborders
A photo from the end of the ferry leaving the port in Marseilles. A curved wake shows the path the boat made through the water.
Darkened room on the ferry with seats kind of like a cinema, that decline deeply. Multiple people sleeping on the carpeted floor in the aisle.
oh wow are you on it now?
in تونس Tunis now!
We stayed for some days in توبس #Tunis at the Hackerspace/Artist residence that is Dar Hamadi. Fedizens: put this place on your radar should you make it out this way!

https://dar.hamadi.kangoulya.org/ @kangoulya
A photo from inside Dar Hamadi. A futuristic & 80s villa, with patterned marble flooring. It's evening, there is an orange light overhanging a black, glass table with spacey, white molded chairs around.
Tunisia has really rich history. Here's what I got in one toot:

There are still indigenous Berber/Amazigh people. Around 3000BC Phoenicians come (from ~Lebanon) and set up Carthage primarily as a strategic base. Eventually the Carthaginians brokek off and controlled half the Mediterranean.

Rome conquers around the time of Christ. Vandals come down at some point, Arabs come across later, French colonise, WW2 fought there, independence in 1956
Map of Carthaginian control of north coast of Africa, southern Spain, Corsica and Sardinia and part of Sicily
Map of current day Tunisia. Kind of in the mode of the north of Africa, nestled between the much larger Algeria and Libya.
The ruins of the baths of Antonius. Build by the Romans 100 years After they destroyed Carthage
A large array of Phoenician grave. Many of them have the symbol of a bottle, apparently an allusion to goddess Tanit
Knives at a market in Douz. I think they are for cutting date branches? Note that the blades are made from beaten rebar! A lot of ingenious handcrafting can be seen throughout Tunisia.
About 40 knives on a blanket in the ground. The blades are lightly curved and serrated. Handles made from wood. The setting sun casts long shadows.