Tunisia
Hammamet

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    • Day 4

      Kasbah

      September 1, 2019 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

      Après notre promenade dans la médina, on trouve l’entrée de la kasbah: l’ancien fort.
      Une fois passée l’entrée, on se retrouve dans une grande cour entourée des remparts. On se repose un peu à l’ombre avant de monter admirer la vue.
      On voit bien la médina, la ville moderne un peu plus loin, la plage, la baie et les collines juste derrière.
      Il commence à faire chaud et Enzo fatigue. Il a bien marché ce matin! On reprend donc un taxi pour aller déjeuner à l’hôtel et faire la sieste.
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    • Day 8

      Dar Sebastian

      September 5, 2019 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      Pour notre dernier jour, nous allons visiter la Villa Sebastian, aujourd’hui devenue un centre culturel international.
      La villa a été construite dans les années 20 par un mécène roumain (George Sebastian). Au cours du XXeme siècle de nombreux artistes y ont résidé, ce qui a commencé la réputation d’Hammamet sur la scène internationale.
      On se promène dans les jardins avant de visiter la villa. Enzo est en mission pour ramasser toutes les banches qu’il trouve! La promenade est très agréable sour les arbres ou bien au milieu des cactus avec vue sur la mer.
      Arrivés à la villa, on en fait le tour avant de prendre un thé à la menthe au bord du bassin central (qui est vide malheureusement). On en profite pour écouter la répétition d’un groupe d’étudiants musiciens qui font un concert ce soir. Jason adore ce qu’ils jouent et essaie de se renseigner pour savoir ce que c’est mais fait chou blanc.
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    • Day 1

      Pauschal nach Hammamet

      October 4, 2022 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

      Zum dritten Mal besuche ich Tunesien, diesmal Hammamet. Startpunkt war der Hbf Tübingen, von dem aus es nach Stuttgart und danach zum Flughafen FFM ging. War unkompliziert, hab immer Glück mit der Deutschen Bahn😉Read more

    • Day 12

      Ksar Ghilane nach Nabeul

      December 2, 2023 in Tunisia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass ich als Nachteule (manche behaupten Fledermaus) mal einen SonnenAUFgang fotografieren würde........ Heute war es soweit. Es ging sehr früh auf die Überführungsetappe von Ksar Ghilane nach Nabeul zum Hotel Les Pyramides. Dort verbringen wir wieder die Nacht auf dem bewachten Parkplatz und bekommen spontan noch ein einfaches Abendessen im eigentlich geschlossenen Hotel serviert. Yousef organisiert uns dann auch noch ein paar Flaschen Tibarine. In Nabeul nutzen wir auch die Möglichkeit unsere Fahrzeuge für ganze 20 Dinar vom Dreck befreien zu lassen und tanken nochmal voll.Read more

    • Day 4

      Medina

      September 1, 2019 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Ce matin, direction la médina (ancienne ville) pour explorer les petites ruelles et admirer les jolies portes.
      En dehors de la zone des commerces, il n’y a pas grand-monde.
      Enzo aime bien courir sur les pavés et sauter dans les flaques (un peu sales!). Il fait connaissance avec les chats du quartier et leur propose de jouer avec son lapinou (qu’il a tenu à emmener en promenade).
      Les couleurs (bleu et blanc) nous rappelent notre visite des Cyclades l’année dernière, très paisible.
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    • Day 14

      Hammamet Medina

      August 19, 2022 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

      Auf der Reise nach Beni Hassen haben wir einen Zwischenstop in Hammamet eingelegt. Bewusst haben wir die touristische Gegend komplett gemieden und waren nur in der Altstadt, der Medina. Die ist unbedingt empfehlenswert. Sehr schön, keine Ruinen, nicht sehr groß und direkt am Meer. Ab 20 Uhr wird es dann aber voll, Stau, alle kommen gleichzeitig, die Restaurants sind plötzlich voll besetzt. Freitags kommen viele Gäste über das Wochenende aus Tunis.Read more

    • Day 4

      Ausflug nach Hammamet

      October 30, 2022 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

      Heute sind wir mit einem Taxi nach Hammamet gefahren und haben die charmante, historische Altstadt erkundet. Vorbei an viel Keramik und Textilien durften wir auch kleine Schildkröten bewundern. Als Abschluss haben wir einen Kaffee nah am Wasser genossen.Read more

    • Day 3–5

      Stop! Hammamet Time!

      September 9, 2023 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F

      This blog title reminds me of a guy I dated in college. He had an absolute beater of a car- the doors couldn't latch closed, so when he took a sharp left turn, the passenger-side doors would swing open. On his dashboard, he kept a wooden mallet, which he used for "percussive maintenance" : His electrical system would seize up if it idled too long at a stoplight, and he would hit the dash with the mallet to restart it. I will never forget the first time I saw his car seize up; he grabbed the mallet, yelled "STOP! HAMMERTIME!", and pounded the mallet full force onto the dashboard. And then we calmly proceeded through the intersection.

      Anyway! Good times.

      So today was a travel day, giving us plenty of time to chill after the frenetic pace of yesterday.

      We left Sidi Bou Said on the 10am train to Tunis- WHICH WE PAID FOR, thankyouverymuch- and then puzzled out the Tunis transport system enough to catch a tram to the bus station, communicate in our shit French that we wanted to go to Hammamet, figure out their byzantine coin assortment to buy the tickets, and then push through a scrum of passengers to snag two adjacent seats. Wheee!

      The hour-long bus ride to Hammamet drove through Tunisia's Cap Bon winelands, whose existence is a bit of a paradox: While Tunisia is Muslim and sort of dry (to buy booze at a grocery, you must enter via a special shame-entrance, and only during certain times and days), its centuries of Carthaginian, Roman, and French rule resulted in a strong winemaking and distilling heritage. Tunisian wines are surprisingly good, specializing in rosés. Who knew?

      We arrived in Hammamet in the afternoon, and found our little guesthouse down an alley in the medina (old town). The guesthouse is a classic Tunisian "dar"- much like Moroccan riads, dars feature Moorish tiling, rooms surrounding a central courtyard, whitewashed walls, a hammam (a Tunisian sauna), and a rooftop terrace and pool with views to the sea. It's quite luxurious, and not at all how we're used to traveling. Did I mention that Tunisia is really cheap?

      We spent the majority of the afternoon relaxing in a café, and walking along the beach. Hammamet is Tunisia's beach resort capital; Brits and Europeans who visit Tunisia are pretty much only coming here. But it's for good reason- the Mediterranean water is even warmer than in Barcelona, and prices are a fraction of France's Med resorts. I love the strange mix of Barcelona beachy vibes and Middle Eastern coffeehouse culture.

      We spent the evening on our dar's rooftop, just reading and drinking a Tunisian rosé (we braved the shame entrance to purchase a €3 bottle). Tomorrow we plan to spend all day on Hammamet's golden beaches.
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    • Day 4–6

      Beach, please

      September 10, 2023 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F

      Today was a beach day! Given that two of my favorite activities are going to the beach and traveling, I will obviously jump at the chance to combine them into one glorious day of hedonism.

      After breakfast at our guesthouse, we went to the grocery's Door of Shame to buy beer to mix with lemon soda to make claras- because it's a law in Spain that any beach day, regardless of location, must be hydrated with claras (it's not a law) (it should be).

      At 10am it was already blisteringly hot as we walked to the plage (beach). Plage Hammamet is a white-sand public beach outside the medina, and very popular and crowded. So color us excited to see when we arrived that an entire row of beach palapas (beach umbrellas made with straw and wood) were vacant. We promptly claimed one, but then noticed there were no chairs to rent. A single beachgoer sat in a chair under the only other occupied palapa; so I asked in my shit French how to rent the palapa and chairs. I'm pretty sure he told me the rental place was closed, but just help myself to the chairs stacked behind us. Like I said, I'm fairly certain that was his general message; regardless, this is how we ended up with a prime surfside location for free. Score!

      After a lovely day of playing in the surf and napping on the sand, we walked back to our guesthouse to share a bottle of Tunisian wine and watch the sun set from our rooftop. It was gorgeous, but despite the many nearby rooftops, it was only us and the numerous street cats admiring the view.

      We hadn't eaten since breakfast, so we decided to have a late dinner at a Tunisian restaurant that is very popular with the locals. Unlike the nice beach restaurants with a view of the sea, this place was a twenty minute walk in the opposite direction, and was packed with locals eating at plastic tables with paper place mats. The menu was a bit inscrutable, given that our French is barely passable and our Arabic is nonexistent- so we ordered a tomato and merguez (spicy Tunisian sausage) stew, a chicken dish, a salad, and a brik (sort of an empanada) to share. The waiter asked us something unintelligible in French, to which I could only respond with a blank stare. He shrugged and walked away, which is when we realized that we had no idea what we just agreed to, or what food would eventually materialize.

      To our surprise, the waiter brought soup. Then a basket full of baguettes. Then four different salads. And THEN he began bringing our actual order. We weren't certain if we had ordered incorrectly, if the waiter confused our order, if we were getting rolled, or if the locals were offended by our American-sized food order. But we did notice that many other tables had the same ridiculous amount of food; apparently this is the Tunisian version of the Full Meal Deal. I nearly choked on my couscous when I saw the bill was barely 32 dinars (€11).

      After that monster of a meal, we walked back to our guesthouse for our last night in Hammamet. Tomorrow we go south to Sousse!
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    • Day 1

      Hammamet

      May 23, 1999 in Tunisia

      Ero incinta e volevamo fare una vacanza rilassante prima che la nostra vita cambiasse.
      L'hotel era bello e confortevole con grandi e curati giardini, immense piscine. Non faceva caldissimo, si stava bene. Peccato che mi ha preso un'infiammazione all'anca che mi ha accompagnato per entrambe le gravidanze e quindi non abbiamo potuto visitare praticamente niente.Read more

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Hammamet, الحمامات, Горад Хамамет, Хамамет, Al-Hammamat, ハンマメット, 함마메트, Hamametas, Хаммамет, حمامات، تیونس, 哈马马特

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