A
trip to Tunis
Carthage is now the
Tunis area of Tunisia. I visited Tunisia
for work meetings around 2010 with a colleague.
We were not there for long, just a few days. The first hotel we stayed in was nice enough,
near the city and the souks, the food was good, the hotel was very elegant with
a nice spa. I indulged in a massage as
they were about half the price of the UK.
It was excellent although I felt sorry for the lady who did it- she
looked exhausted afterwards. We then had
a trip down to Sfax.
Tunis had felt safe
enough, they are used to tourists and did not pay us much attention. Sfax on the other hand, which was about a 3 ½
hour taxi ride, and was quite different.
We went to a coffee shop on arrival and were stared at, with people
coming to the window to look in. Walking
down the street, we were shouted greeting, it was all in good humour but there
is something about standing out in the crowd that makes you feel
uncomfortable. To top it off, the hotel
was less than average, the doors did not lock on the bedrooms and it was dirty,
so we changed plans and got a taxi back to Tunis on the same day and booked a
seaside hotel in Tunis for the night.
This was another palatial
building and very much a tourist hotel.
Saga holidays were staying there with a group. Food was fabulous, in fact everything about
it was nice. It’s a shame we did not
have more time to explore as I am sure the area would have been full of things
to see and do, and I would have loved to have toured the souks but, as with
most business trips, it was back on the plane the next day.
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