Book Review: Secret Edinburgh, An Unusual Guide.
Edinburgh’s Doors Open Day, an event which is no doubt so wonkily titled to avoid the acronym ODD, will see …
Category Archives: Tourist Review
Tunisia: Getting Down To Business.
“Is there anything wrong with this page?” The UK FCO’s Travel Advice on Tunisia. Over April, Tychy ran a series …
Tychy’s Tunis: Partying in Tunisia.
I am not going to review any of the restaurants that I visited in Tunis, primarily because reviewing restaurants has …
Tychy’s Tunis: A Word On Where To Live.
On my first night in Tunis, I stayed in a large city-centre hotel. At this point, I was still not …
Tychy’s Tunis: Advice and Comments on the Medina, from the Roof Terrace of the Café El M’Rabet.
I have climbed up to the very top of the Café El M’Rabet. You have to first venture through a …
Tychy’s Tunis: The Grandeur That Was Rome.
The sun has got its hammer out and the strokes are beating on my brain. Tunis in April usually mixes …
Tychy’s Tunis: The Sanctuary of Tophet.
I am discussing the apparent Punic custom of child-sacrifice over dinner with my hosts. I cannot bring myself to believe …
Tychy’s Tunis: Sidi Bou Said.
All aboard for Sidi Bou Said! I am riding on the Tunis-Goulette-Marsa or TGM, a light rail service which runs …
Tychy’s Tunis: Carthage.
Perhaps I am swimming against the tide in visiting the Carthage National Museum after visiting the Bardo. The latter is …
Tychy’s Tunis: Alcohol.
I am hot and cross after walking around the medina and I decide to start the day all over again …
Tychy’s Tunis: Mosaics.
Sometimes the vast rooms of the Bardo are so draughty and impersonal that the building more resembles a national gallery …
Tychy’s Tunis: Some Comments On The Bardo.
You cannot really review the Bardo National Museum, any more than you can kick around Mount Everest. The few unconnected …
Tychy’s Tunis: Some Things To Do In The Sunshine.
Today the sun is shining. Yesterday it was raining and so I went to the Bardo. What shall I do …
Tychy’s Tunis: At the Feet of the Infant Bacchus.
The infant Bacchus stands naked and unperturbed in bronze and he has done so since the second century AD. He …
Tychy’s Tunis: Sad Friends.
My greatest relief about Tunis is that it is relatively easy and perfectly safe for me to go on great …
