Club Dar Nouar La Marsa

... We break for coffee and a pit stop, enjoying the central square, Great Mosque and main shopping street where there is not one other tourist to be seen. This feels like an authentic look at Tunisian life that has not been dressed up with a medina full of tourist souvenirs.

The site of Dougga is most impressive. Your introduction to the site is a huge theatre, from which you can see ...

... then we leave for our Farewell Dinner at the Dar Bel Haj – another famous restaurant in the medina. It is fantastic to walk the twisting lanes of a medina that is bustling in the daytime and almost totally deserted at night.

The tour is now officially concluded. Two members leave tomorrow while the rest of us make an optional excursion to the Roman site called Dougga. Stay tuned!

... site we will not make it to Kairouan before the noon closing of the Grand Mosque because today is Friday, the Islamic day of congregational prayer. Knowing that takes the pressure off us and our driver, and we can relax and enjoy the Roman site at a leisurely pace.

Arriving in Kairouan we eat lunch, then visit the famous sites in the city including the Aghlabid Basins, built in 860, the tomb of Sidi Sahab (a ...

... lunch overlooking the bay of Tunis.

Our final stop is the Bardo Museum, which houses some of the most amazing mosaic works discovered throughout Tunisia as well as statuary and other art objects. After visiting the museum our guide walks through the medina of Tunis with us, showing us its many markets on our way back to the hotel. We dine at the hotel tonight, and prepare for an early start in the morning.

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Tunesie n mit seinen 1300 km Mittelmeerküste mittlerweile ist der zweitgrößter ...

... for a few minutes before we retired inside to a cafe for some mint tea. Today's mint tea was obviously jazzed up for the tourists and contained a layer of swimming pine nuts (why??!), and came with a plate of ...

It's difficult to say if it was at any particular point when our trip shifted gears, but it was most likely during or shortly after the following progression of events: 1) We missed not one but two busses from Trapani to Palermo (as Lisa mentioned) and so we opted out of the latter entirely, booked a pass on the slow boat to Tunis from the former and declared unconditional victory; 2) Grateful for (and protective of) the opportunity ...

Sometimes when I am in a different country to the one that I live in, I always ask myself why do we have certain rules. In Holland, you can fill up your car at the servo and buy a slab of beer. Kind of puts a different perspective on filling up. As the louage drove away, we stopped at the servo. The ***** kept his motor running whilst the Izzy lover doing the filling, smoked !!! As I am still alive, I take it that it is ok to smoke when filling ...

... Punic and Roman villas, baths, and public buildings built during this time. I have always been drawn to Roman mosaics and seek them out at museums. The Roman artists created such vivid and finely crafted depictions that many times you'd think you were seeing a painting rather than stone. Many of the scenes Romans illustrated were of regular people doing typical daily activities. Maybe that's why I like them so much, normally when seeing ...

... town I went to had listed under major tourist attractions 'famous date orchid'. I discovered Tunisians are more fascinated with dates that the average poof at the Sydney Mardigras. To make matters worse the guidebook was right. It was hot. Most days it averaged over 45 degrees. I was sweating like a pedophile in a playground. It was so hot that I did what German Field Marshal Rommel would have done. I lifted the pace of the attack. I started moving like I had ...