Jun 23, 2008 - Monastir

Finally a nice marina! We immediately went for a coffee at one of the cafes along the marina. Monastir has a well preserved fort and is quite a nice place with some white beach and a few tourist hotels. The tourists mainly come on cheap package holidays where they have room and all meals so quite often they never leave the hotel! We had the worst meal so far. Malcolm ordered steak that was so tough he could not cut it and when he complained the waiter replied, he could bring him a sharper knife! We were all a bit lazy just enjoying a little...

Nov 20, 2007 - Tunisia

Tunisia Having survived the first term of school, the DeSmith family joined the rest of France in search of adventure and warmer weather for the October school break. Since the resident travel planner was clean out of ideas for vacation destinations outside of the European Union (we needed new passport stamps), we found ourselves sitting in front of Catherine, a perky woman at The Thomas Cook Travel Agency in Avignon. After several days of perusing vacation catalogs in French, we finally settled on an all-inclusive family resort in...