floating in the clouds

Following on from my photo diary yesterday, I wanted to talk about one of the more adventure-y side of things I did in Tunisia. On our ninth day there we took a trip to the inland to visit some of the country's historic and cultural sites. We took a coach down, where at the absolute crack of dawn we were given a brief history lesson on Tunisia's culture, on how it became an independent country, where its main source of income comes from and a general look into its past. I love things like this so I was on the edge of my seat so invested in what this guy was saying, others were less as enthusiastic at 7am and slept through it all. Our first destination was the El Jem colosseum, which is the colosseum which was used in the film Gladiators, it's quite often the one used for films because it is more... 'put together' than the one in Rome which has eroded a little more over time. The building has so much history behind it, it's so surreal visiting places like this a...