January 31, 20242 yr Yesterday, I was a bit surprised to see, in the kitchen, a bottle of (USDA - Organic) olive oil...labelled to be "Product of Tunisia"...must be a new brand being trialed in the home front...🙂...I thought...I am used to seeing olive oils with labels such as "Product of Italy" or "Product of Spain" or "Product of Greece"...etc., but Tunisia caught me by bit of a surprise, while this olive oil, seemed excellent indeed...delightfully bold and uniquely flavorful...as any other known brands... (OK, I will be shortly getting here to "Tunisair" in just a bit...🙂...) ... A bit of on-line search quickly dispelled my ignorance. Tunisia, sometimes referred to as a land of olives, is not only known for its honorable place in the high quality of its olive oil, but also, it is one of the world's biggest producers of it. How about this Quote, I read somewhere, attributed to a Taxi Driver in Tunis, "It is said that olive oil will cure 99 things. But it does not say it will cure all 100. Why? Because olive oil cannot cure death. It cannot bring you back to life..."...So, it certainly seems like this small country (in fact, the smallest in Africa) and its people are passionate about olives and olive oil. Tunisia, a country, richly endowed with history and archaeology, is located at the northernmost part of Africa, bordering on the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea with temperate climate, while nearly half of the country in the south extends towards the dry, arid, and hot sands of the endless Sahara deserts. Anyway, "Tunisia" label of the olive oil, made me recall one neglected (PMDG) 737 livery, in the back of my mind, that of "Tunisair", that had come with the livery pack I'd acquired for this a/c a while ago, but never got to fly it, until today, so I went about to fix it, ...and, in the process, discover a bit more of Tunisia, and the source of my olive oil...🙂... As is evident from my images below, you can easily visualize the nature of the terrain in Tunisia, on my flight path, (MSFS does a decent job, here, btw). I flew today, from the airport (DTTA), of the capital city, Tunis, in the northeastern corner of the country, across the (mildly mountainous) northcentral plains, about 100 miles out, to the Atlas Mountains of west-central Tunisia. The Atlas Mountains you see below are considered to be mountains of the desert, and therefore special. In Tunisia, these mountains are not tall, the highest such mountain being only about 5,000 ft. The Atlas range, however, gets much taller as it spreads westward, through Algeria, into Morocco. Over these Tunisian Atlas Mountains, near the border of Algeria, I've made the U-turn of my trip back to Tunis airport. Hope you enjoy this collection of 737-600 images of Tunisair, with its delicate and elegant logo, consisting of a silhouette of a pink-colored (galloping) Deer, adorning the tail of the plane. And, surely, somewhere in the tracts of land, I overflew today, lie the olive groves and olive trees, that contributed to the production of the olive oil I'm enjoying this week...🙂... Thanks for viewing...!
January 31, 20242 yr Beautys, also like the landscape around your Trip ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online :  ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage  HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
January 31, 20242 yr Nice overflight. Once accompanied my wife (a food editor) on a tour of the olive-producing regions of Andulusia, hosted by the International Olive Oil Council. So I can attest to the presence of olive groves literally everywhere in some Mediterranean regions, though I'm not picking them out in your shots here...maybe too high? 🙂 Edited January 31, 20242 yr by John F
February 1, 20242 yr Author 18 hours ago, pmplayer said: Beautys, also like the landscape around your Trip ! cheers 😉 Appreciated the comment, pmplayer. Yes, rather unique landscape around these "half-desert" regions......and agree, the 736 looks good in this livery...  7 hours ago, John F said: Nice overflight. Once accompanied my wife (a food editor) on a tour of the olive-producing regions of Andulusia, hosted by the International Olive Oil Council. So I can attest to the presence of olive groves literally everywhere in some Mediterranean regions, though I'm not picking them out in your shots here...maybe too high? 🙂 Thanks, John. I could love to do a tour like that ...though I am more a food consumer than a food critic ...🙂... Yes, need some low-altitude inspection is needed a bit further north closer to the Mediterranean coast...to see those olive groves ....🙂...that had something to do with my olive oil...  4 hours ago, rmeier said: Nice set of photos! One of the few remaining B736 operators. Thank you, rmeier...yes, so rare for some operators to be still flying these 737 variants... Cheers ...!
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