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Steve & Chris
Fri 13 Aug 2010 13:44
Friday 13th
August
An enjoyable last
day in Tunisia began with a hearty breakfast of french toast (or eggy bread as
we call it!),bacon and mushrooms, unusually cooked by the Admiral. The
main reason for the cooked breakfast was a surfeit of eggs which we could only
buy by the tray of 30! Fortunately we have storage capacity for 24 since
buying some natty plastic egg storage boxes in a super kitchen gadget shop in
Merchant Street, Valetta, so only had the odd half a dozen to use
up!
This treat was
followed by a reluctance to get off our backsides and do anything, so we decided
to wait until after lunch to visit Carthage.
This appeared to be
rather a mistake as we realised when the taxi driver explained that there are in
fact nine sites to visit, all of them a bus ride away from the next!
However, all turned out well as we hired the said taxi driver (after some
haggling) and he took us to the main sites. The Roman villas had some
lovely mosaics, still in quite good nick,but the highlight was most definitely
the thermal baths.
Mosaics
Remains of thermal baths
So,having done
Carthage in less than a couple of hours, we collected our cossies from the boat
and spent the next couple on the Sidi Bou Said beach and enjoying our first swim
since Kekova.
Back on the
boat,neither of us could be bothered to cook, and with all restaurants
closed for Ramadan, we settled down to supper of bread and cheese followed by an
early night ready for our departure tomorrow morning.