If you live in Greendale you might have seen fliers from the Greendale Seventh-Day Adventist Church littering the streets. On the one hand they want you to come and “be blessed”. And on the other they think nothing of chucking their literature on the streets leaving a mess for someone else to clean up. So spiritual …

During my stay at the El Mouradi Gammarth Hotel in Tunis, I’ve been surprised by the number of women walking around with bruised, bandaged faces.

To begin with I thought I was seeing the same woman each day, but gradually came to realize that in fact there were at least 4 different people staying at the hotel with what looked like similar injuries – a broken nose and bruised, swollen eyes.

On one night I stopped short at the eerie sight of a woman seated at a table in a dark corner, her bandaged face lit by the glow of a laptop computer. And on another occasion, a woman sat in the hotel foyer looking at her face in a hand mirror whilst she fiddled cautiously with the plasters covering her nose.

After a quick Google search I discovered that Tunisia promotes itself as a high quality and affordable plastic and cosmetic surgery provider.

Inflict enormous pain on yourself then recuperate poolside at one of Tunis’ holiday resorts.

“This had better have a good ending Jamie….”
- Val Maasdorp on The Cambria

Petina Gappah

Stunner

On my way out after a show last night a young man spotted the camera around my neck and demanded (in a nice way) that I take his picture, pretty soon a couple of his friends wanted their pictures too. Now, usually I’m wary of being alone with three young men in the dark, but HIFA has a way with people. We had a lot of laughs taking the photos and they even took down our web address to see them live on the internet.