Last day in Tunis today before heading off down to El Jem, Gabes and then to Djerba! Taking our time to just wander around and shop in the Medina and take in the sights, sounds and smells of Tunis. Have really enjoyed the people and this place is such a mix of European and Arabic cultures and we are having fun making the Tunisians in the Medina guess our Nationality, mostly think we are Spanish, much to Iain's amusement, so we must go and shop! [View Full Entry]

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Today we arrived in Tunis early morning, after a long flight from Doha, Qatar. Our first funny experience was getting our Tourist Visa in Tunis Airport. As you can't get Tunisian Dinar anywhere but Tunisia, and we had to pay for the Visa with Dinar, Iain had to wangle his way through customs and imigration without his passport, in order to get to an ATM to get Tunisian Dinar to pay for the Visa. Then we had to wait for 1 hour to get the Visa, not that anyone tells you this at the time, but it was quite funny. Once [View Full Entry]

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Tunesien - Hammamet [View Full Entry]

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Tunis, Sousse, El Jem and Sfax So finally we made it to Tunisia! My first time in Africa; one step closer to my life goal of settting foot on each of the seven continents of the world (only Sth America and Antarctica to go!). That ever-evasive ferry ride ended up being quite interesting. We met many of the Tunisians who were pushing in front of us at the ticket window in Trapani, and they all happily started talking us. It was a welcome change from their hectic shouting and shoving that we encountered in Trapani. We tried to communicate with them [View Full Entry]

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When I had first planned to come to Tunisia I thought that it would be a short ferry ride from Italy and a refreshing break from Europe. It was a very refreshing break from Europe but the ferry ride proved much more difficult to organise than I had previously thought. We wanted to take a ferry from Salerno but soon found out that the only ferry was full. It went via Palermo in Sicily though and there were free seats from there to Tunis. We tried to buy tickets but it was "impossible" we were told. We quickly went to the [View Full Entry]

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The epic tale about how I got to Tunisia Though this travel blog covers Tunisia out tale starts on a cold and stormy night in Salerno, Italy (well it wasn't cold and stormy, more bright, sunny and cheerful, but it adds to the effect doesn't it . . . right I'll stop now and get back to the story). When last we spoke our three intrepid explorers, Joel, Justin and myself, were happily travelling along the tourist path of Southern Italy. It was Monday the 31st of July and the day before we had found out that the ferry was not [View Full Entry]

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*Sidi Bou Said is a very attractive little coastal town, this is somewhat aided by what seems to be a strictly-enforced colour scheme: everything was blue and white. The steep path down to the harbour is just behind me in this picture. *This rather attractive tiling can be found at the Bardo Museum on the outskirts of Tunis, along with a large collection of mosaics that have been ripped out of Carthage. Charlie was ill that day from some dodgy food, so she says please don't look at the photo too hard. *Carthage itself was rather dilapidated, since most of [View Full Entry]

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Having been to Morocco the previous year, we knew we were fans of the North African holiday experience and decided that a trip to Tunisia would be right up our street. We had reckoned on good weather (we were right) and interesting sights (turned out to be even better than expected). And so in March 2006 we went for what was probably the best trip I have ever been on. Day 1 We started off by flying into Tunis, the capital city. I had had tonsillitis before leaving and was still feeling a bit ughy, but going away definitely helped to [View Full Entry]

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... gather them all together and assemble a lemonade/lemon meringue/lemon pie/tequila stand with over-inflated prices and an aggressive market strategy. With the profits, invest in more lemons (alternatively life could give them to you again for free) and build on further collecting every single lemon zest of all the lemons you've ever had so when you're good and ready you can squirt the acid into life's eyes. Them's the breaks when you travel in the off-season I suppose. Instead of the relaxing, adventurous, sun-filled countrywide venture I was planning. This trip instead turned into a [View Full Entry]

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Al salaam a'alaykum (A formal greeting in Arabic that stands for “peace be on you”), How are y’all? I just returned from a trip to Tunisia. Nestled along the Mediterranean coast in Northern Africa, Tunisia has been a crossroads of cultures for several millennia. I didn’t know much about the country before my visit. Looking at a map, you can see that it is wedged between Libya and Algeria. Do not let the small size of it fool you as this country has a rich history dating back to ancient antiquity. The first settlers of the region were the Berber. Their [View Full Entry]

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