Thought for the Week: Tunisia

Trish Carn reflects on recent events in Tunisia

by Trish Carn 3rd July 2015

Last January my husband and I travelled to Tunisia for a winter break near Sousse. While the weather was colder than we had been expecting, the welcome was warmer.

We took two tours to places of interest. The first was to the Bardo Museum, in Tunis, to see their wonderful collection of mosaics. We were picked up at our resort by a very knowledgeable Tunisian guide named Hamid. He spoke enthusiastically and informatively about the mosaics, describing the various periods in which the mosaics had been made and the differing ways of laying them – thus explaining why some had lasted so well over the succeeding centuries.