Not last weekend, but the weekend before, we had a field trip to Le Cap Bon. It’s on the northeastern part of Tunis and its quite beautiful. We stayed in Hammamet, in a hotel that looked like a sandcastle. The hotel was right on the Mediterranean, so I got to have my fill of swimming and wandering around old forts.
Below is a picture of an area of the beach - note: the area I swam around was crowded with tourists, not boats. But the boats seemed more scenic when I was taking pictures.
And this is a picture of me at a seaside cafe next to a very old fort:
And on our way back to Tunis, we took the long way back and saw some differing places on the coast. Below is at the very tip of Tunisia:
And finally, a picture of the sunset on the Sunday before last:
After the wonderful and fun weekend, we had another week of intensive classes and homework. But on last Friday, we all went and stayed for the weekend with differing host families. My host family was really wonderful. The 'mom' (a few years older than me), is an English teacher at the University. Her husband owns a restaurant (where I was fed amazingly delicious food), and they have 2 children - a 10 year old girl and a 4 year old boy. The woman's mother lives with them and the woman's sister lives close by. The sister also has small children andalong with an assortment of random nieces and nephews, I was happily surrounded by children all weekend.
Saturday morning we went to the Bardo museum, which has art from Grecian times to the Ottoman empire. Below is a picture of the mom, her daughter, and I in front of a Roman mosaic.
Later Saturday evening, we went to Sidi Bou Said to watch the sunset and relax. Below is a picture of the family at a cafe:
Finally, on Sunday, we drove to Hammamet and spent the day at the beach. It was a really great time and I am hoping that the next time I have a free weekend that I can go and visit again.
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