Tunisia, Day One; The Arrival
We arrived at Enfida airport at about mid day, where we had to find a guy with pieces of paper for us to fill in before we could go through security. Security was manned by people who didn’t seem to care, one bag scanner on the phone, the other had brought her young children to work. As the guy before me went through the metal detector with a belt on and it beeped, no one batted an eyelid so I saved myself the bother of taking off my watch and belt and wandered through the metal detector, beep, and down to baggage collection. In the airport entrance we were greeted by a porter who took our bags to the coach waiting outside. Unfortunately we stood still in the coach for the next hour while our airport greeter Anne faffed about, little did I know I much prefer her faffing than going on and on about what she would do if she was on holiday. On arrival to the golf resort we had a bit more paperwork and given the keys to the room. Our room was nice and clean, with a balcony over viewing the pool.
Money was our first challenge, as you can’t change your money before you get to Tunisia I had decided just to take my visa card and Vicky only had £60 cash so we asked the receptionist where the nearest cash point was and went for a walk. The cash point was a dodgy looking brick building with a rusty shelter, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when it threw my card back at me with some sort of error in every language but English. We walked back to the hotel changed most of our cash, drank a few beers and went for food.
Food, as we were half board was buffet style, but it took a good five minutes to figure out where they were hiding the plates. Most of the food we tried was quite bland, with the exception of some meaty skewers which tasted like i has bit straight into a lemon, and of course the bright blue bubblegum ice-cream. Overall however there was plenty of nice food to eat so no major complaints.
After dinner we went to bed as with needing to get to the airport at 6 am and being up late the night before loading essentials onto my Archos tablet it had been a very long day.
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