Tozeur to Djerba

This day is the funniest and also the worst.

Our friend Tarik told us that normally it is easy to get a Louage from Tozeur to Gabes in the morning. We went with a good mood to the station and were expecting to find a louage straight away.

We found one but couldn't fill the seats. We waited for 3 hours and I told the driver that we will buy 4 seats and we only have to wait for one more person. 8 people can usually go with a louage but we only had 5 so far with us included. Half an hour later the driver offered us that we can buy the last seat for 10 dinar which is equivalent to 3 Euros and we decided to buy that seat. So we bought 5 seats in total and paid 25 euros which already was a very annoying start.

One of the guys in the louage was also going to Djerba, he didn't speak neither good French nor good English but seemed to be a difficult guy. The type of person who always causes trouble at school. At the course of the story we will call him the difficult guy.

We followed him in Gabes and got our tickets for Djerba and were waiting in the car. Only one seat we had to fill we would leave for Djerba. There was a guy from Lyon in France he tried to convince us to share the costs of the last empty seat. We told him that we already had to pay for 5 seats before and that I really don't want to buy any further seats. The difficult guy supported us and they splitted the costs and we took off.

The driver was driving, we got stopped twice and they interrogated the difficult guy for half an hour, which we found weird but later on he told me that it was due to that he didn't go to militery and paid money not to go at all.

The French guy talked to the driver and told us that the driver doesn't want to take the ferry. The ferry from Gabes is waaaay shorter than taking the bridge therefore the price is already included in the ticket price.

Once the difficult guy found out what he was planning, he started discussing with the driver and could convince him to take the ferry. The driver stopped somewhere and got some shoes. I checked with the GPS everything seemed alright.

When I checked the next time the GPS I realised that we went more than 20km the wrong way, the driver stopped to give a woman the shoes and was thinking if he takes the next left we would have done a detour of 20 km which is alright. But the driver turned right because he wanted to take the bridge again.
I realised that he is lying to us and told it to the difficult guy, he started arguing with him again, he kept driving the wrong way and shouting. If he follows his plans we would have done 120 km wrong ways for his business + the way over the bridge is additionally 100 km longer. I was very tired and I exploded. I started shouting at him that he should stop the car and give us our money back and we will share a taxi. He kept driving, the French guy and the difficult guy were shouting too. We passed at a police station and of course they stopped us.

We were all soo angry the driver was shouting and we were all shouting in front of the police. In the beginning the police said that he can drive the way he wants if he tells us and we told him that there is only one price which is the one with the ferry and we did a too big detour for his shoe business and that we are sure that he has more business plans on the way.

After all the discussions they gave us right and he had to take the ferry. I took a Foto of the driver and his car, you will find it attached and the sunset from the ferry. Later on we took a taxi with the difficult guy to our resort and he left before the car. On the ferry he made fun of me that I am very aggressive, I am pretty sure he never heard a woman shouting. Normally I don't but in that moment, it just made me too angry and I couldn't hold it anymore. Sometimes it's surprising how good you get in a language when you're angry. I was shouting in French.Read more