Soon there will be holidays and like every year the beaches of Spain, Italy and Turkey will be full again.
But there are also other countries around the Mediterranien Sea, for example Croatia which I will visit this year.

At first I was really afraid. It‘ s nation of the Islam, we had no boy with us, we would fly with TunisAir and we would be in Hotel Phenix, which has only two stars. Well, the flight was OK. If I had known that there was no plane of TunisAir which yet crashed down I would have been much more relaxed and would have ignored all the noise the machine made.

After two and a half hour we arrived at the airport in Monastir (you only need your identity card, if you are a tourist) and one hour later we were in the third biggest town of Tunisia – Sousse. The first big surprise was the hotel. It really doesn’t look like only two stars. The whole two weeks I haven’t seen one insect, we hade something where we could cook, a balcony, an air-condition and even a small swimming-pool with a terrace and deck-chairs. The breakfast also tasted not bad, you only should have some time (the waiters there are slow like in France and sometimes it is no more funny if you are really hungry and they bring only one plate every time)
The only real problem was, that you couldn’t sleep very well, because of the disco next to it.

Sousse has a well known Medina. You can go by taxi, if you don’t want to walk. Paying only for the car and not for the persons it’s really cheap (one Dinar or 50 cents). But you should take something to drink with you, because it’s hard to get and very expensive there. You will need it: the Medina is on a little mountain and so you often have to walk up- and downstairs.
The greatest part of the Medina is full of shops and stands where you can buy jewels or water pipes. Like in every country of the Islam you have to haggle and this could take very much time. If have no joy by doing so you could buy your souvenirs in the Soula Center next to the old town wall of the Medina. There they have fixed prices, however it is often crowded.

There are no more other interesting things to watch in Sousse and the other activities like the three hours travel with the pirate ship, the camel tour or water skiing takes much money.
But the second week was so boring, that we finally spent the 20 Dinars (10 pounds) for the travel with the pirate ship. I really enjoyed it. The ship is always near the caost and so you could see Sousse “from the other side“ and the meal you get there also tasted very well. You should take care not to get a sunburn and not to get sea-sick like one of my friends, because the ship swayed very much.

Finally, I want to say something about the men there. It hasn’t been so horrible like I have imagined. We always found something to say, so that the walked away. But after the sun set, it wasn’t nice at all. One time we decided to walk to the beach to photograph the sun rise (we only do so for one time) and it needed only a few minutes and we had a couple of Tunisain around.