 Good morning from the old Medina of Tunis. It's a beautiful sunny day today. So I decided to visit this city called the Benzers or Biserte in English and it is a very important city because it used to be a military base for the French during colonization and it was also the last territory to gain independence in Tunisia. It's supposed to have this beautiful nice old port that I'm really excited to see and show you but what I'm most excited about is a point that's further north of Benzers and it is the northern most point in continental Africa. I have no idea how I'm getting there from Benzers but we will figure that out and I'm really excited to bring you in on this adventure. I love love love love the old Medina in Tunis. It's one of the very few Medinas where you really get that raw experience. You're not really hustled by a lot of vendors. You can walk peacefully and it's very authentic especially for me. When I compare it to many Medinas in in Morocco like America, she can get really hectic but the blue and yellow doors are just so incredible to see. Right behind me is the Ba'b Sa'adun and not too far from here there's supposed to be a louge station and louages here in Tunis are public mode of transportation where you basically get into a van, you pay for one seat and you wait until the van is filled with other travelers going to the same destination. So from here, Tunis to Bizerte, it's about one hour. They are pretty efficient, they are affordable so it's going to be less than 10 dinars. I'm going to leave the exact price out here and they're pretty fast too. So I'm gonna go and find my station. It's so busy out here because it's a Monday but also there are a lot of administrations and a lot of hospitals around this area. Pretty crazy. Just arrived to Benzers and this is the old ports behind me. I got off the station, the louge station, walked a little bit and then took a taxi. It was like 2 dinars. As I started walking here, I can smell the fresh seafood and the taxi driver just told me that there's actually a market right there where you can buy seafood and then you can walk right there and then ask them to grill it for you. This is like my favorite way to to eat seafood so I'm gonna do that and see if it's really good. There's an after party going on. Look at that. Oh my gosh, that meal was fantastic. I'm even taking some leftovers home. I have a feeling by the time I get back to Tunis it's gonna become seafood puree but it was so so so good and I'm still here at the old ports. I'm gonna walk around just to see what it looks like from the other side. Now regarding the northernmost point in continental Africa, when I was talking to the louge driver and the taxi driver everyone's telling me it's not a good idea to go by myself because it's the off-season there aren't a lot of people up there and even if I take some public transportation to get there I will still have to walk and they told me that it's not the best idea. So I think what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna try to find a taxi driver, try to negotiate a price and see if he can take me all the way there maybe spend a couple of minutes there and then bring me back. So fingers crossed. Oh my gosh, they have a beautiful Medina here in Benzert. Everything's blue and it reminds me a lot of the old Medina of Shevchev and in Morocco. Although even in the Tunis they use a lot of blue but here it's very different and I love the art on the walls and they even have some pots right there. So beautiful and peaceful. The one thing that I've been really enjoying about Tunisia is the culture of tea rooms, les salons de thé. So they have tea rooms all around the place. I mean coffee shops and tea rooms but more tea rooms but especially in the old Medina many of the tea rooms are frequented by young Tunisians and it just brings like a beautiful vibe to the old Medina because I'm not used to like back in Morocco for example the old Medinas you know it's like old very traditional not a lot of young people going there but that wasn't the case and so even right here when I go to the old Medina the first thing I find a beautiful tea room where you can order some tea, Minz tea, but the difference is that in their Minz tea they like to add some nuts so usually almonds or pine nuts. So I've been ordering almond a lot but then today I'm trying with the pine nuts and it adds an incredible flavor. I really never imagined that you just throw some nuts in there and it's gonna really change the flavor but it's so so very good. I found the taxi driver who was kind enough to you know just do this with me and we parked the taxi all the way there because there are a lot of puddles of water and we don't want to get stuck in there so I'm going to walk a little bit and it's funny because it just starts to be raining so just the two of us out here we're gonna make it happen we don't know exactly what it is but we shall see. It's deserted out here there's not a single person nobody here. The sun is all the way there and you can see there's a lighthouse right there. This is the northernmost point in continental Africa from Tunisia.