Sunday, 09 January, 2011 --- Day 09

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Stayed at bus depot working on computer till 9:30. I then rigged Spithas and headed for the city which was less than 2kms away. I lodged at hotel Salammbo again. I went to my room (25) and laid down for a while to rest. Next I got up and walked to the subway station to ask if it would be OK to take Spithas in a carton box to the airport by subway. My next move was to go to the Medina looking for a place to find the carton box for Spithas. I asked around everywhere but did not get any good answers. Besides everything was closed on a Sunday. My achievement was to know where to come tomorrow. Someone pointed out to me that there is a bike store in one of the side streets of the Medina, near the arc at the port of France

Arc at port of France


I was really tired and went back to the hotel where I took an at least three hour nap. I was tired for not having slept properly in the bus the night before.

When I got up I was lethargic at first but finally got up the energy and went downstairs and asked to be connected to the wifi. This time wifi was set against me. I tried all the tricks but nothing worked. Disappointed I went out looking for an internet location (publinet as they call them here.) Everything was closed and when I asked at pizza store they really did not care to help me. So, I left to ask somebody else. As I was walking down the street somebody approached me and told me that he had overheard what I was looking for and new of a place that was open. He actually walked me to that place which was at least 10 blocks away. Very polite, he was a student of telecommunications originally from the south of the country. While we were walking he expressed his negative views about the people of the north. I guess there is a divide here between north and south as there is in many other countries. I stayed in the publinet place for two and a half hours and then walked back to the hotel. It was only 22:00 but looked like very late. The fact that it is already night by 18:00 makes a difference in my perception of early and late. At the hotel went almost right away to bed to make up for the hours of lost sleep.

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