re: Tunisia in December

We took a Mediterranean cruise a few years ago that was scheduled to stop in Tunis. Our tour included an excursion to Carthage, a city tour with time in the Old Town, and a visit to the big museum. I was looking forward to it because I had never been to Africa.

That morning we were just offshore within sight of the port, but we couldn't dock because the winds were too strong and the waves were too rough. We turned around and headed to Palermo.

A few months later there was a terrorist attack in which a bus full of tourists was shot up in the parking lot of the museum we were supposed to go to.



As a side note, there was another memorable thing about that morning. After we couldn't dock, we decided to have breakfast in the ship's dining room. Just as our food was arriving, the fire alarm went off and the captain came over the loudspeaker and said that it was not a drill but a real fire and ordered the fire team to their stations.
So much for a nice, relaxing breakfast.

The captain came on about 10 minutes later to praise the efforts of the fire team in extinguishing the blaze which turned out to be a smoke bomb designed for a fire drill that went off accidentally.

All was well after that, but for a while, there we were in what we thought was a floating inferno, off the coast of North Africa in gale force winds.

I will take a pass on going to North Africa right now, so if you go, please give us a report.