I'm writing retrospectively now. Sunday I decided to engage some transport to better check out the island. The bicycle rental place in town was closed (I waited around for a while hoping it would open) so I grabbed a taxi to the "Zone Touristique" where operating hours might be more enlightened. The zone touristique is a long, very-spread out strip of dozens and dozens of big hotels located on the north shore. Opposite from them are various local restaurants and business set-up to serve those guests who leave the beach and wander out the front gate. My driver took me to a place that rented out motor-scooters so I got one for 30D. The rental guy gave me a helmet, insurance card and some brief instructions: "Have you ever done this before?" "Don't ever touch the front brake" "Accelerate very slowly." After a bit of practice driving around the dirt parking lot I felt ready to get on the road. It took a while to really get the feel for driving because your center of gravity is way different than on a bicycle. After that, driving was really fun! The speedometer on my bike didn't work, but as I was almost keeping pace with cars in some speed zones, I estimate the scooter could go up to 60km/h. Also the gas gauge stopped working half way through, but the rental guy said you couldn't burn a full tank in the five hour rental period. So I spent the afternoon tooling around Jerba on this thing. I went to the eastern-most beach, the marina back near Hoummt Souq, stopped for lunch, and finally visited the island's casino! Only the slots were open during the day, and the place was completely void of gamblers. You can only gamble in foreign currency (probably because the off-shore operators have no use for Dinars) and I left the place $5 poorer. After returning the bike at five, I took another taxi back to the Auberge de Jeunesse, ate Cousse Cousse Royal for dinner and went to bed.