特産品＆伝統工芸

チュニジアの首都チュニスから１時間ほどの街、ナブール。陶器で有名な街で愛知県瀬戸市と姉妹都市。至る所に工房やショップがあった。すべて手作り、厚手の生地が重そうに見えるが意外と軽く、様々な色や模様、形が中々良い味をかもし出していた。


どこでも後継者不足は同じらしく、この伝統工芸も年老いた職人が細々と続けていた。これは“わら”（Straw)よりもずっと太くて長いパピルス（？）で、ござはモスクにも敷き詰められていた。





水タバコはアラブ諸国では何処でも見られるポピュラーな嗜好品。カフェで簡単に試すことができる。以外にもチョコレート味やアップルなどのフレーバーが選べる！

Tunisian Wedding

The traditional wedding in Tunisia is so different from the one in Japan. It lasts 7days (!!) with full of customs and ceremonies.

This is one of those, the wedding Henna paint. which all the female in the family have both on their hands and soles. Covering their hands with a kind of groves for about 3 hours after it's done by a professional, the color stays and will last more than a few weeks.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　

"So many countries, so many customes."　

国の数だけ習慣も有ある。（所変われば品変わる）これらのヘナペイントは、親族の女性が両手・両足に施す結婚式の特別なもの。驚くほどに長持ちする！

Doors & Windows

Tunisian doors were decoreted with iron tack and colorful paint, also beautifuly curved iron-barred windows were everywhere and they caught my eyes.


Those are the old style wooden windows which opens up outside (not sliding ) and always painted cobalt blue.

美しいドア

チュニジアの家々には曲線を帯びたデザインの鉄の窓枠や扉が付けられ、それぞれが個性的な模様を成していてとても印象的でした。また外壁に付いた扉は鉄の鋲で模様が打ち付けられ、中にはとても凝った模様のものやカラフルに彩られたりした扉も見かけました。

Beautiful Beach Towns

To see those beautiful beaches of white sand, white buildings with blue windows, nice cafes and bars facing to the coast of the Mediterranean sea was a good surprise to me because more sandy brown image was in my head before I visited Tunisia.
(city of Hammamet)

City of Sidibou was especially beautiful and Tunisian President has a few houses there. The view from its up hill was outstanding!

日本語で初投稿！

チュニジアの友人を訪ねて旅立ったのは９月３日、イタリアとマレーシアにも寄った後、今週の月曜日に無事帰国しました。

感動フレッシュな内に旅の報告をしたくて始めたページなのに、今日まで記事を書けず、しばらく間が空いてしまって･･･。チュニジアでも何度が更新を試みたんですが、ネット事情と環境が余りよろしくなく結局何も出来ませんでした（>_<）残念です！

これから、訪れた場所や珍しい食べ物などの旅日記を沢山の写真と共にUPしていきますので、どうぞお付き合いください！！（今日ようやく日本語環境が整いました^^;;）

Back to the reality...

A late summer vacation is over...

I was back on Monday, 19th, and kept myself busy with work. Here I am finally typing this massage... Sorry for not updating the page during the trip. The internet connection in Tunisia was not very good (only to me?) and I had to give up doing it after a couple of tries.

Anyway, I had a great time and got so much to tell & show!! The photos I took maybe tell more than my words, but I will try to explain about the places I visited and the things I did as much as I can.

From Kuala Lunpur

Since I hadn't slept at all before leaving home last night, the 7-hour-flight from Nagoya was not that bad. I could have a short sleep. Seeing a long line for the check-in counter of Malaysian Airline, I was expecting a flight with full of people. But I had an empty seat next to me though it was not my favorite window seat...

Here I am at the airport in Kuala Lunpur, Malaysia, for the transit. Waiting for the next flight at 23:59 to Rome (now 5:00pm!) is just too long and I have no idea how I kill my time (>_<) ---maybe the homework of Korean!?

Anyway, things are going well so far and I look forward to a good long sleep in next plane...ZZzzz

The first message to you all...

I am leaving to Tunisia the day after tomorrow. It's going to be my first visit and I look forward to showing my impressions about the trip through this page to all of you... Let's experience something new Visavis (face to face) !!

I have to note that I might make some spelling and grammartical mistakes... I apologize for it in advance (^^;;