spaghetti with octopus??

The video clip is just a taste of what downtown looks like these days. We met friends there for lunch today and stopped to see what all the protests were about. Those young people can get really loud & rambunctious. They spontaneously spring up all over the boulevard downtown and it's kind of fun to watch it all happening. We went to an Italian restaurant and our local friend ordered octopus. Darrell was ready to order whatever he did but quickly changed his mind when he heard his order! I had spaghetti with "fruit of the sea" thinking it would be shrimp, fish, scallops?? Wrong. My spaghetti was covered with tentacles of octopuses (?) and squid; very hard to chew, by the way:) The appetizers are usually a plate of olives and a plate of mayonnaise & hot pepper paste which they dip French bread in. Very different but I'm sure we'll be getting used to it and loving it after awhile. I love hot stuff so I don't mind the food here. The French bread and pastries are wonderful and available on every corner. Yikes. Danger. This is certainly a different country & culture from the other Middle Eastern countries we've lived in. And with this new revolution, it is changing drastically by the day! Fun to be here and watch it evolve before our own eyes.