After over 100 countries and territories visited, Africa remains the least explored continent for me. That is why I jumped at an opportunity to have one more African country under my belt when I saw an ad about a group going to Madagascar in August. I usually spend summers in Bulgaria rather than at home […]
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Tunis The last day of our vacation my husband and I spent in Carthage. I am sure everyone remembers the phrase “Carthago delenda est!“ (Carthage must be destroyed!) from their school classes of history. The Roman senator Cato the Elder ended with it every one of his speeches regardless of whether he had been speaking
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Doha, Qatar The skies were clear and on the way to Tunisia, we could see one of the most recently constructed hotels, Katara Towers, opened to the public in January 2023. The building is shaped like crossed scimitars, the popular Qatari double-sword design. It is actually 2 hotels, the Fairmont and the Raffles, each occupying
