A tour of sana’a

I went searching for my vacuum tubes again. I had hoped that there would be a stash of them here that I could get for cheap. I’m running into the problem that when vacuum tubes were king, Yemen was still in the stone age. By the time they started to use electronics, the tube era was long past. Still, the Brits were here for ages, and south Yemen was allied with the the Soviet Union, so I’m holding out hope… Anyway, the last time I went looking, someone told me to go look down Zubayairi street. so I went there. I started to ask around and someone told me that a place on the other end of Zubairi might have them. Back to Bab-Al-Yemen to go searching… I wandered around, showing people the picture I have. Most had no idea what it was, but several pointed me towards a street. I wandered up and down the street, no one seemed to have any idea of what I was looking for. Oh well, lots of exercise, maybe down in Aden there might be some… hmmm.

I did manage to find where the “taxis” for longer trips are. They have these rows of cars waiting, each row is to a specific destination. The cars are a mid sized one, and the squeeze 6 or 7 into them. I don’t think I’d be too keen on an 11 hour drive down to Aden in one of those. A little too “cozy” for my tastes. Still, it’s good to know, maybe I can take a cheap trip down to Taizz one of these days.