http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tunisia , Tunis en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:36:01 +0000 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:36:01 +0000 We arrived in Tunis capital of Tunisia late on Tuesday night because of dreadful weather at Heathrow. Though only a few hours behind schedule it gave us no time to orientate ourselves. Instead we just took a taxi from Tunis Carthage airport to the Hotel Ariha unpacked a few things and turned in for the night. Our French isnrsquot up to much so far and we ended up speaking Spanish to the taxi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-457180.html A Louer Maison meubl dans un quartier bourgeois au centre ville de la Marsa la zone la plus recherch de TUNIS dans la banlieue nord de Tunis dans une rsidence scurise et calme proche de touts commerces et services. 120m de la Rsidence de l'Ambassade de France et 1km de la rsidence de l'ambassade de L'ANGLETERRE 300m de la plage. Pour une semaine un moins ou plus. Pour vos missions Va http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-451751.html http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-442974.html Our 10th and final day in Tunisia. What a great place and one which is full of contrasts. Time stopped here in the 19th century yet internet and mobile phones are everywhere. The people are very friendly and often there is a bit of English here and there. The country has a long Islamic heritage yet all is very relaxed. It is possible to even find a little alcohol. On arrival in Tunis it seemed we http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-380525.html Having failed to receive our Iranian visas and recognizing that it was winter in most of the Middle East we did some serious rethinking of where to go from Bahrain. Originally we had planned to travel overland from Pakistan to Iran Turkey and from there to Syria Lebannon Jordan Egypt and across North Africa to Morocco.We also confirmed that overland travel in North Africa was going to be un http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-368387.html We went to Tunis with a very big aircraft that wasnrsquot even half full So the flight felt like forever. After a very long wait a wheelchair showed up for an old lady. We finally left the aircraft and took a scenic bus ride to the hotel. I had a Cape Town feeling driving there...At the hotel we soon learned that the people there arenrsquot the friendliest and if you cannot speak or under http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-355767.html I woke up around 830am and I took a shower. Celine and I went all over the medina. When we started out we were a little hungry and Celine introduced me to fruit cocktails. It is quite similar to a smoothie the one that we had was a made from banana and I think they put dates and crushed cashew and almond as well and they top it up with a few banana slices and honey. It tasted fantastic and it cos http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-351120.html Woke up around 9am I had not done any of my packing and my room was in an utter mess. I also had to go to the bank because I have been busy working double shifts to payback days my colleagues have been working for me.I had a cup of green tea which I had drunk a few days ago and the cup was still beside my bed and the green tea leaves were still there with mold growing inside.After having breakfas http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-351010.html It is officially the last day of my foolhardy North African adventure volume I.It has been packed. Did I actually say that I would be able to relax in Tunis I vaguely remember using the words 'chill out'.Today I went to my first and second legit museums of my entire 6 week trip. I am so le cultured.I visited mostly all the old Carthaginian ruins near Tunis in the 35 degree humid weather. A http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-315069.html So long wait but Ive finally made it to Africa. And the Sahara is beautiful in an oh so desolate sort of way. I havent been able to go very far into it yet I hope to spend longer when I explore the Western Desert in Egypt but the splendid desolation of searingly hot dunes and terrain so flat and endless that it plays tricks on your eyes is something to see. Also I have descided that Bedoui http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-311763.html Due to a sheer apathy I have not posted in the last couple of days. As in I was waay to lazy to leave the little oasis I found on Cap Bon.But I get ahead of myself.One only has to read my journal entries of the day and the night from the 9th to the 10th of August. To say the least I was a wee bit cranky at my captivity in the Doukhane household in Annaba and of my 3am scheduled departure tim http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-311760.html ...never again will I complain about the Greek alphabetFirst of all apologies for the long silence. I am alive in Africa specifically in Tunis and just starting to recover from the biggest bout of culture shock ever.I am functionally only semiliterate. Tunisia is a francophone country so in theory although arabic is an incredibly difficult language and I have only a few phrases and cant rea http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-311755.html Packing for Tunisia Take a black wig just in caseI am not kidding... when I was a kid I had redblonde hair. Obviously there are not that many people with redblond hair anyway not talking about our Scotish friends ...and in Tunisia the number of people having or having seen redblonde hair might just be near zero. All thar resulted in Tunisian people touching my head when I was passing t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-300912.html MIA Job http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-262631.html ....We landed in the country of the LotusEaters who live on a flowering food.HomerThe Odyssey.Tunisia was a gentle reintroduction to the African continent. It has good tourist infrastructure an efficient public transport system and its people are friendly and helpful. After 6 months back in Britain earning some money I'm traveling again. See my last blog.I had packed an Arabic phrase http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-238341.html Dear Friends and FamilySo i am sitting here in Casablanca....but no no no i will not write a word about beautiful Maroc just yet....next blog inshallah. We gotta give the needed attention to Tunisia. So just like Libya our stay was too short but memorable. Our first night was spent at some ridiculously remote town in the middle of the desert where they filmed Star Wars i splet in a cold cave f http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-229851.html