Tunisia

26/03/2011 – 03/04/2011

Upon our return to the UK we started looking for honeymoon destinations. We had always wanted somewhere warm and with a beach. We began looking at the good deals we could get to the Caribbean, we started looking before we went home to get married. We decided to throw that idea out the window and go somewhere closer to home, somewhere still warm but did not involve a long haul flight. We went for Tunisia…..sure they had a revolution but that was sooo last month. After talking to a travel agent and getting a good deal we were sold 7 days all inclusive chilling by the Mediterranean on the Tunisian coast.

Having a wonderfully early flight time of 6am we flew direct to Monistir making good time and arriving early by 1 hr. This was to be a good thing. Not having the correct passport meant we needed a visa. I had read that we could obtain these at the immigration counter. This was true. I knew the currency was closed. What I thought would happen would be the same in Turkey and Egypt when you arrive you can go to the window, pay your fee in £GBP or $USD. Not here! What I had to do was leave immigration go to the exchange counter get money then go to another area to get the stamps (while they tried to rip me off £10) then take the stamps back to the immigration officer who handed over the tokens and passport to another person who made the visas. This whole process took almost an hr. Like most people we hate not having our passports in our control/possession and watched them every where they went.

Finally being let into the country we travel by bus to our hotel. Out of the hundreds of people in the terminal we were the only one on our bus/holiday operator which were going to our hotel…..must be fancy or really crap. It took about 1.5 hrs to get to the hotel. We checked in and went straight to our room to freshen up and get on with the honeymooning. First point of call was to get some lunch. Being all inclusive meant that all meals were provided and all drinks. Lunch was a buffet and we stuffed our selves. We had a waiter who looked after us for drinks and a friendly service. After the lunch we went exploring to see what the resort had to offer. We found the 2 pools the gym and the beach….the pools and beach had a bar on them! We took the rest of the afternoon to chill out.

The holiday went in all the same style with us being lazy fat pigs. We were by far the youngest couple and the skinniest. Most days were spent having buffet breakfast (usually a chocolate or jam crepe) then sunning ourselves till lunch time, going to lunch have 3 plates at buffett and a couple of beers, then going back to sunning ourselves before heading out to dinner for yet more food at the buffet and more alcohol. After dinner the hotel entertainment troop or “animation team” as they were called would have some entertainment with them on stage dancing. After dinner we would usually have some drinks. Of course there were times we would get smashed.

It wasn’t all sitting around in the sunshine. We would play some games with the animation team, we did Archery a few times and also played French bowls. These were fun. We went on two excursions out of the hotel. One day we went to visit the surrounding towns and the souks to buy some souvenirs and get ripped off. The other excursion was to a African zoo with the famous African animals ohh and an emu living in thistle and some wallabies. After the zoo we had dinner and a show of Zulu dancers and Tunisian belly dancing.

It was a good holiday and wonderful honeymoon. Now we can go back in 10 yrs to see what it’s still like. We enjoyed our time lazing around even if I had moments of boredom. It was good to have a chilled out time away from everything where we did not have to stress or worry. Unlike most of our trips…

 

 

 

 

Our Bed it was Giant   The Beach

  Meerkat at the zoo   Lion Cub  Sitting on Mum

  porcupine  Zulu drum and dancing during dinner