Hotel a Tunis Capital

... new brother refused to take a tip.  I believe this is the first time in recent history that a taxi ride from the Tunis airport to a downtown hotel cost under $5td.  Suffice it to say, that if you do not have a strong command for the French and ...

... for some shopping, but on this holy day (Friday), many shops are closed.  We continue on to Tunis and back to our original hotel in the capital city.  There is a very special farewell dinner at a seaside restaurant where we watch the sunset ...

... (notably, Lady Gaga is very popular here).  I suppose it all depends on your perspective. So, we spent three days in Tunis, the capital, and three in Djerba, an island off the eastern coast.  Tunis is kinda modern (it had a Zara!), with some ...

... fighting in North Africa during World War II. Perhaps one of the most famous museums of Tunisia is the Bardo Museum located in the capital, Tunis.  It is often referred to as "Africa's Louvre" and at one time was an Ottoman palace.  On the ...

I fly this morning from Barcelona to Tunis; the capital city of Tunisia and home for the next 2 nights.  There is a welcome dinner for me and the other 20 gay men participating in this unusual tour destination.  They are from all over the ...

... the sights of Tunis centrale. On to the main show - Carthage. Carthage lies maybe 8km from Tunis along the TGM (light rail) line. It was the capital of the Carthaginian empire which was founded by the Phoenicians around 800BC and whose power was ...

... and it is less expensive than the Carlton! Once again, I am reminded that what I normally would consider a 1 ½ star hotel warrants 3 stars in Tunis.  I note a large book at the check in counter and interpret the French written on it to be a book of ...

We rode the local train from a small station near Hammamet to Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia. Saw the incredible Roman mosaics in their history museum and then met Sophie Thibault, the French exchange student who stayed with my family more than twenty ...

I am in Tunis now. After waiting about 3 hours at the Cairo airport, I flew into the capital city of Tunisia, Tunis. Tunis Air isn't that great of an airline. I was completely bored out of my mind since they had no in-air entertainment. The airplane food ...

... above the Mediterranean Sea while sipping on mint tea, a local favorite.  Late in the day we returned to Tunis; the nation's capital.  A visit to the Bardo museum which houses one of the world's largest collections of ancient Roman ...

... and making rude and inappropriate comments to my daughter and my wife as I walk with them down the main street of the capital city.  I find this irreligious and disrespectful not only to the women but to the man who is accompanying what are clearly ...

... , Ukraine and Russia. Was it the weather? A new continent for Alf Kåre? Since my original flight from Madrid to the capital Tunis got rescheduled, I had to fly out one day earlier than Alf Kåre. I had prebooked a hotel including airport pickup in ...

... was back then.  We also got to see where the chariot racing took place.  Very Ben Hur!   In the capital, Tripoli we visited the pretty average museum although the mosaics were rather impressive as they were in good condition and we took ...

... to expect when we boarded our second train to Tunis in two days, heading for the old Punic city of Carthage, now a suburb of the capital. But I figured that you can't exactly come to Tunisia and not go to Carthage, right? So the plan was, train to Tunis, ...

... churches and buidlings and narrow streets and where I bought a beautiful candle holder made of Mdina glass.  This city was the old capital city of Malta dating back to pre-historic times known as “the silent city”.  We hop back on ...

... screw anyone who dares cross your path....nope I was definately happy to take the bus. Our trip took us to Tunis, the country's capital where we visited the most famous Mosaic museum in Africa which was definately impressive and also out to Carthage to ...

... , we had not really done much planning. We didn't really have that many days, so we thought maybe just hang out around the capital Tunis. I'm glad we didn't, the city isn't really that much fun. Quite far from it really, except maybe the old Medina and ...

... my unwashed clothes in my little cubby...).  While I know Tunisia is one of the most liberal Islamic countries there is, and the capital Tunis is no way reflective of the country as a whole (how well does Ottawa represent Nunavut?), I had read a ...