Tunisia - The thing with the sand.

Tunisia - The thing with the sand.

Längerer Beitrag – schneller Überblick:

We knew, of course, that when driving towards the desert, we would encounter sand. We are good at rain by now (Scotland), snow and cold (Lapland) too. 

But what about the sand?

First of all, not all sand is the same. Imagine flour, fine flour. Not the coarse wholemeal flour, real 405! That's how it is here in the northern Sahara.

And then imagine that there is a light wind. Always.

The result is that there is finest sand everywhere. Felix has an adventurously dirty patina on the outside. Yeah! And so do we, by the way. Less yeah! The hair is shaggy, like crazy, the mega-great idea with the oil treatment only leads to more sand clinging to the hair. 

When you brush your teeth, it grinds sandily. Despite wiping the table several times, cups and plates still crunch on the table. Cutlery and sand share space in the cutlery drawer. Shoes with tread are great sand storers, but so are shoes without tread. 

All the hinges creak, the window regulator sings the desert sand song. Our floor compartments, where we store shoes and supplies, now resemble little desert landscapes of their own.

On one of the rarely visited campsites we observe other campers. Mind you, we are more likely to meet overlanders with huge expedition vehicles (and accordingly space for household appliances of all sizes!). We observe a busy sand removal. Here we vacuum, there we sweep with all kinds of brooms and carefully wipe everything down with small rags. 

It's all a matter of attitude

We have chosen the other way: We accept the sand. It is now part of our lives from now on. Once a day, the coarse desert is swept out of Felix. That's it! 

And yes, we go in with shoes, yes, we carry sand in, yes, there is sand in the bed too. Sure, because our feet are sandy. 

Every now and then we vacuum the hinges empty, that would cost us too much later, but otherwise we now live with the sand. 

Because of our new acceptance/ignorance and our newfound zest for life in dirt, we are thinking about another stage: crispy baguette breakfast in bed. But: we are not there yet. (And I sincerely hope that our children never read this post!)

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Tunisia - The thing with the sand.


Merci for "travelling with us

We are thinking about taking another break from travelling in the summer and visiting our families in Germany and Switzerland. One of the ideas is to organise a Lecture about our long journey to the Persian Gulf to prepare. If you would like to, what would interest you the most? We will also tell stories here that don't find a place here on the blog. We're thinking of the Bern and Berlin area - simply because we have family there. But other places are also conceivable. Feel free to write to us.

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Rachel
Rachel
1 year ago

🤣😂 I had a great time reading your report. 🤣
Yes, the sand....
It is similar in the Caribbean. 😂
After 5 months there, I threatened "murder" if I found even one more grain of sand in my shoes. 🤣😂
After 6 months I was happy to be able to travel home. 👍😉

Heike
Heike
1 year ago
Reply to  Rachel

Oh how nice that you enjoy our sand 🤣🤣🤣

But I would also like to spend months in the Caribbean! I wouldn't mind the sand.

Greetings!

Rachel
Rachel
1 year ago
Reply to  Heike

I don't think you can take it much longer on a small island.
I, for one, was so fed up afterwards that I finally learned to ski at home. 🤣😂
Simply so that I didn't always have to go far away in winter. 😇
Have fun in your giant sandbox. 👍

Edgar
Edgar
1 year ago

I have always wondered: what is the best way to reach your children? I would like to recommend a blog post to them....
I had to smile a lot. And to Verena - who is also a very, very big fan of sand - your ode to joy!

Katharina
Katharina
1 year ago
Reply to  Edgar

The kids read almost every post 😉 Only I have to and hold back after our Max 🐕 shed all his fur in Felix. That's too thin ice for me to venture on 😉

Michael Altmann
1 year ago

Hello you two, it's a pity we missed each other. We were at Camp Cinderella from 28 December to 2 January. It was really great there. The silence in the desert was even more impressive. Have a good trip. Our Tunisia trip ends on 07.01. after 4 weeks.

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