In South Africa, you will find the most southerly tip of the African continent at Cape Agulhas. In Tunisia you find the northernmost tip at Cape Blanc. I doubt that President Ben Ali was thinking of this when he skipped the country last week after 23 years in power. His overthrow was swift and jostling to establish a new government is under way. I visited Tunis in 1998 and spent time with some of the local stock exchange people. Already then the share trading system was very modern and automated. The island of Djerba off Tunisia's coast in the Mediterraniean is a stunning resort venue and I spent a great week there, mainly sailing Hobie Cats. The weather conditions were perfect. Plenty of sunshine and every afternoon the Sirocco would pick up steadily making for ideal Hobie conditions. At that time Ben Ali had already been in power for 11 years and he still had another 12 to go. The QSL is from La Telediffusion Tunisienne. This was one of the stations I heard and wrote to many times over the years without a peep. My visit to Tunisia motivated me to try again and suddenly there it was.
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