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23 (Sun) June 2019

Couscous with Grouper

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at Sheraton Tunis Hotel (room service)

-Tunis-

solo

Mission to Tunisia, Day 2 of 6.

• Day 1 (10.168 Mini Sliders)

In Tunis.  Attending the First Meeting of the Regional Parliamentary Forum for Health and Well-Being in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 24 (Mon) to 26 (Wed) August – the official launch of the forum that our office had helped set up last year (see generally 9.332 Kibbeh Nayeh).  Very gratifying and exciting that parliamentarian engagement is spreading across the Organization, with the Western Pacific Region leading the way.

Very cool to enjoy couscous – the staple food of the Maghreb, a region in North Africa that comprises the modern-day countries of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania – at the source.

Tastes the same but the volume far exceeds what I would’ve imagined reasonably possible.

Increasingly woke about the contributory effects of commercial practices on climate change, I am now uncomfortable to accept these throwaway goodies that come with business class travel – not to mention the carbon footprint of business class travel per se.

Do we really need to produce a plastic case for disposable ear plugs??