Remember I promised to tell you more about Tunisia? Bit by bit, here I go. This is literally a view out of the bathroom window of my hotel room in El Jem, Tunisia. That amazing structure is the World Heritage-listed El Jem Colosseum, although they technically call it an amphitheater (but guidebooks …
Tunisia
Passport pirouette: Tunisian bureaucracy
I went to Tunisia a little by chance. Suddenly realising that our Bratislavan jobs would give us a two-week (unpaid but compulsory) vacation over Christmas, I ran to the travel agent to book a flight to somewhere warmer. Most places were sold out but a friendly guy told me a flight to Tunis was the …
Picture pirouette: The off-season in Monastir, Tunisia
My trip to Tunisia in 2003/04 was one of the highlights of my serious backpacking days. There's so much to say about Tunisia - and I mean the public transport, cheap inns and cous-cous with the locals side of Tunisia, not the beach resorts that Europeans fly in and out of without seeing the country …