Night time view of the Marina Royale in MarigotWe walked 5 minutes to the Marina Royale district, which is a very nice development of high-end restaurants and shops overlooking the yachts of the marina.…

We didn’t have much luck with restaurants in Roseau. We tried a local sports bar/restaurant that was recommended to us called Garage Bar and Grill, but the food was pretty bad, and the service was horrible.…

We ate two dinners in Sultanhamet, and both were expensive and bland. (in addition, I believe my wife got sick from eating at one of them). The guidebook warned us about restaurants in this area, but they were close to our hotel and we were exhuasted by the end of the day.…

The next day, we headed north back up to Tunis. We took a train – there are lots of them from Sousse, and it dropped us right downtown next to our hotel, the Hotel Maison Doree (same place we stayed in on our arrival).…

We ended up spending a lot of time at a good falafel place right across from the fort, called Al-Zuhul Restaurant. It was the Omani version of Sonic drive-in, where cars would pull up in the dusty parking lot outside, a waiter would run out and take their order, and then they would e

Eiffel Tower lit up at night. We took a flight to Paris yesterday afternoon.  It’s an 11 hour flight and a 9 hour time difference so you don’t actually “lose” that much time. …

Walking through the streets of the old city of Akko.In Haifa we stayed at the Port Inn – fantastic location, and a super clean hotel.  Yesterday we explored Akko in the morning – it’s an old city just to the north of Haifa.  It is on a peninsula in the Medi

Our room was a big step up from most of the rooms we were staying at.The Coral Bay Hotel is right on the Red Sea, just south of Aqaba.  Our room was a big step up from most of the rooms we were staying at.  It was large, clean and nicely decorated.  The balcony had a be

The next day was our day to kayak on Ootu beach. The weather had other ideas however, and it rained almost all day.  We sat and played Scrabble. Ian won.  🙂 The day wasn’t a total washout, however.  For dinner, we went out for our best meal of the trip at Tupuna

 We rented what passed for bikes, and biked around the island for the day. It's only 18km around.Since every hotel was full of the crew for Survivor, we pretty much had the beach to ourselves.  We toured the island by bicycle – and saw no other tourists.…