Mercure El Mechtel Tunis

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Excursions et circuit :
La Tunisie est en effet une des destination les plus belles en ce qui concerne la ...

... Capitol and Forum and the sprawling layout of this huge city. It is considered the best preserved Roman city in all of North Africa. We spend several hours wandering through the site, then have lunch and begin the drive back to Tunis.

Along the way back we stop briefly at the War Cemetery for English lads who died in the Second World War. Heartbreaking to see their ages, and the ...

... 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!

Our attempt to leave at 6:30am is thwarted by the fact that someone's phone got knocked off the hook last night, and the wake-up call didn’t come through. Everything happens for a reason, however, and the delay changes our plans so that the day works out better anyway.

When we arrive in Sbeitla to tour the ruins of the 3rd century Roman town of Sufetula, it is clear that no matter how quickly we run through ...

Our first visit today is to the dramatic ruins of Carthage. We visit the remains of the Punic city, the hilltop museum and cathedral, and the elaborate Roman baths by the sea (in the shadow of the Presidential Palace).

Next stop the Mediterranean-style village of Sidi Bou Said, with its bright white buildings with blue doors and shutters. We visit a house of a famous lawyer which is now a museum, then ...

... the foundations of the old city, and the medina, the boundary being marked by the Bab El-Bahr - an archway that previously represented a sea gate within the old city walls. Thinking of it as a sea gate was pretty hard to imagine, given that the sea was now several km away and it was plonked smack back in the middle ...

... stomach in this great little suburb of Tunis. After thinking that we should all own stock in the paint company that produces all this blue paint, I made my way back down the hill and past group after group of tourists wielding cigarettes barely able to inch their way to the top where I had come from. I found the TGM station and three stops later and about 2000 years back in time I was in ancient Carthage. Sadly, about all that's left of the ...

... each other. The person who connects the most stories with their authors wins $100 off their next Toto Tour. It is a challenging game, and the winner correctly identifies only eight stories, counting his own. Our first touring stop is at Sbeitla, the site of the ruins of the Roman town of Sufetula. The place is definitely one of the highlights of the tour, with a large theatre, a forum with impressive temples dedicated to Juno, Jupiter and Minerva, and the ruins of ...

... handy shovel i carry at all times in an emergency, and came across the remains of thomas the becket, bruce hornsbys great uncle, henry 8th and merlin, all in a comprimising reverse cowgirl position. i decided to withold their dignity and rebury them, selling their prized possessions on ebay for a cool 45.6 billion but then blowing it on www.888.com. picked up a ride home with my friend Wizzer, so aptly named as every time he sees pictures of donny ...

... the tourist information, dropped off some seriously toxic washing at the laundrette - paid by weight, I was tempted to ask if we could pay for the weight AFTER washing. Breakfast was filling soup called 'lablabi' served with bread. Stopped by the main market where we tried dates and they were nothing like the ones you get at Christmas. These were near transparent ...