From tree to end product, this photo essay is all about those delicious olives!
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Tunisia olives are world reknown, and surprisingly, it is one of the world’s leaders in olive production. Traveling around the countryside, especially during the olive harvest, you can witness the entire production from tree to market or even to the table.
From Bizerta to Ichkeul, and from Carthage to El Kef, the roads drive straight through olive orchard [...]
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Tunisian Woman removing olive branches from her orchard.
The Tunisian winter is the time to harvest the olives, then clean up the orchards to get ready for another year. I was overwhelmed my the number of olive orchards in Tunisia. Olives provide over 18% of their Gross National Product.
Throughout Tunisia and everywhere we went, small groups of people were picking, pruning, collecting, and hauling their olives to the mill to turn it into olive oil. This lady and the rest of her family had picked their olives and completed pruning their trees. I’m not sure where they [...]
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I just love this photo of the Bizerta harbor in Tunisia. It evokes a sense of work, not play, but enjoyably so. Almost everyone is doing something. There is no time to lay about. It’s just a busy scene and I think it depicts northern Africa so well. Tunisia is such a great place to visit. We met so many not only friendly people, but people who would invite you right into their homes. I was amazed. We really got used to just coming right in. We spent two wonderful weeks traversing the Tunisian highways and seeing some great [...]
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…or somebody’s got to do it!
Here’s Devon and me getting ready to go experience a 2,000 year old bath in northern Tunisia.
I’m turning 50 years old today. Wow! 50! It seems old, but I don’t feel old. It has given me time to think about my life…a little reflection, I guess. I wouldn’t trade my life with anyone. I’m so grateful for the decisions I’ve made, the opportunities I’ve taken, the experiences I’ve had. There’s no way I could categorize my experiences into the “Top 10″ or “the Best Of”. Do I think I’m lucky? Not really. [...]
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Yep, more laundry. This time in Tunisia. I just love it. I put this photo through a few filters to give it an old-timey look.
After seeing El Jem on the Amazing Race, it was on the top of my list when motoring through Tunisia. We arrived on a gorgeous day and I love the clouds. Unlike the Colusseum in Rome, you can really wander and climb around the majority of this site. Passageways, ancient graffiti, and pretending to be gladiators. What a blast!
On a cold winter’s day in Tunisia, you’ll see plenty of people line up for this delicious soup. Leblebi is the Turkish word for chick pea, and the Tunisians adopted the word from them. The soup is all chickpea, but on top of it you layer all sorts of toppings from egg to pepper paste (Harissa) and garnished with a few olives. It’s truly a Tunisian delicacy.
Yes, I know. This Coca-cola sign in Arabic is almost a cliched photo taken by Americans, but you have to admit there’s something cool about such well-known brands being in different languages. Yes, there are two sides to this argument. One, global marketing takes away from the local economy. I agree. Two, global marketing is here to stay and even contributes jobs and money to the local economy. I agree. I admit I struggle with some of the brands cluttering up foreign city-scapes, but I’m not so die-hard that I won’t buy a Pepsi or Starbucks or [...]
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Do you watch the TV show “The Amazing Race”? Well, I do. One time they were in Tunisia and the contestants were fed camel. Jim and I drove all over the country and passed by many a butcher, and many olive orchards, but we didn’t really start encountering camel for sale until we got closer to the Sahara Desert in the southern part of the country. All of the butchers either would have fresh heads, sometimes with a sprig of greenery on top of it, or the live camel in front of their establishment whether it be a [...]
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One of the prettiest scenes I came across while in Tunisia, this is the old Roman harbour in Carthage. The pots make the image, and they seem to be out of place. Have you ever taken a photo that surprises you?
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