Carlton Hotel Tunis
31 Av Habib Bourguiba Tunis, 1000, Tunisia
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TWO DAYS IN TUNISIA
Pictures for "Hypertravel: 100 Countries in 2 Years (Backpackers' Guide to the World and the Soul)" by Hardie Karges, more info available at www.hypertravel.biz
Tunis - The Cafe Culture Capital
First, you must understand that our trip to Tunisia had nothing to do with any long held desire to visit this Mediterranean nation. Until recently, we probably could not have located Tunisia on a mental map. Our motivation was based solely and exclusively on the fact that we had not seen our daughter for over 8 months and she was in Tunisia.
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... up the other 2%, it was a pretty safe bet that pretty much everybody there was Muslin and therefore could not buy alcohol. With my passport I could show that I was a foreigner and thus allowed to purchase. Of course I could have been Muslim foreigner, how could they know? And I also was curious as to how the Jews and Christians proved they were just so in order to get into the sacred room of booze. I didn't really get a solid answer on that one from Zyed.
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Tunis Tunisia
... speaking people who referred to themselves as Canaanites (from Canaan) but called Phoenicians by the Greeks from the word for a purple/red dye which the culture made from a secretion of marine snails. Around 1600 B.C. the Phoenicians invented the 22 letter alphabet, adopted by the Greeks, and later to become the present 24 character Latin/Roman alphabet.
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Tunis Seminar
... to Madrid to use there. The evening of that first full day, we went to the restaurant Le Golfe. My understanding is that name means "The Gulf", referring to the Gulf of Tunis. Dinner was very good. I had medallions of beef with two sauces; one, a brown pepper sauce and the other more of a white sauce. I topped it all off with an orange and lemon sorbet. The dinner was about 50 Tunisian Dinar, somewhere around $35.
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