6 trips to TUNISIA in the 90s revisited 30 years later

why so many trips to Tunisia? it has a beautiful sea, is cheap and can be reached in about three hours by plane with convenient flight + hotel or tourist village packages the first was in Monastir-Sousse two neighboring cities, a location also suitable for making excursions to the centre, to the salt lake Chott el Jerid, to the mountain and sea oases and also to the south in Medenine, Tataouine, (southern town with gorfas (former cereal warehouses transformed into tourist shops), Matmata (with underground houses where part of the film Star Wars was filmed, Chenini (mountain oasis with houses carved into the rock like as in Matera, Italy) the second in Cap Mahdia a fishing town with a beautiful coast in the center of the country with the same possibilities as Monastir-Sousse the third in the beautiful Hamamet where Craxi (socialist Italian leader)ended up living, a white village with a beautiful sea the fourth and fifth to the island of Djerba in the south which offers a beautiful sea and many excursions already mentioned in the south the last was an itinerant journey that began in Tunis and ended in Tozeur passing through various previously unseen locations such as El Jem towards the center with its huge Arena in my experience the Tunisians are rather unpleasant and aggressive, in fact they are not loved even by the other Arab countries even if I have had demonstrations of friendship and hospitality such as when I found myself in a mountain village with no hotels and I had missed the train to go back to the valley at my hotel, I asked some guys in the street and they fought over who was hosting me, the winner was someone who spoke English well, his mother made me an excellent lunch at home and I met all the large family Apri in Google Traduttor

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