Tunisia

  • Return to Tunisia… again

    Return to Tunisia… again

    Last month I flew to Tunis and spent a week exploring Roman, pre-Roman and pre-historic sites across Tunisia. I’ve been ‘back to Tunisia’ before, after the Jasmine Revolution, the first and most effective popular revolt of the Arab Spring.  This time it was the murder in 2015 of 30 British tourists and eight others on…

  • Tunisia – Desert Dreams

    Tunisia – Desert Dreams

    ‘After the revolution we thought all the young people will have jobs.  But it’s just the same.’ exhaled Walid.  We walked on through the dunes, Walid  barefoot, wearily leading the camels, our happy band of trekkers following.  100km across a sandy finger of the Sahara’s Grand Erg Oriental lay our destination, the fort and oasis…