The air smelled of burnt tires and scorched flesh.
The streets were still scattered with burnt tires and trees that had been cut down to form makeshift roadblocks.
The streets here, though strewn with rocks and burnt tires, were mostly empty as soldiers patrolled and declared a curfew.
This afternoon, it looked low and it looked old, but surrounded by Israeli tanks and military roadblocks and littered by burnt tires and spent bullets, it did not look very peaceful.
When I was working at a newspaper near a troubled part of town I thought nothing of going to work on days when the government called a strike and mobs burnt tires on the road.
There's loads of cool, cheap places where you can eat, drink and wander about without fear just as long as you avoid the super weird spot in front of Saint-Antoine hospital where pigeons come to die and it smells of vomit, bird shit, and burnt tires.
But I knoWethat on October 23, 2012, Tunistoppedl no longer have a governmento and we will have to take to the streets again.
We stopped to catch a glimpse of the mixture of burnt tires, tear gas and the remnants of the embassy gardens, but decided to high tail when the back end of our car was suddenly surrounded by a pack of protesters.
There's loads of cool, cheap places where you can eat, drink, and wander about without fear just as long as you avoid the super weird spot in front of Saint-Antoine hospital where pigeons come to die and it smells of vomit, bird shit, and burnt tires.
During the course of the three-day shoot, there were only two crashes, a wrecked bike, a near-death tank rattle, 12 burnt-out tires, and a broken whipped cream charger.
