By Judy Darley
There’s something uniquely fascinating about visiting a country in a time of flux. Ideally you should do this once the smoke has dispersed and the threat of violence is no more than a quiet rumble in recent memory. Yet you want to go there before the new regime is fully established, when people understand their new role, but have yet to fully embrace it.
That was the timing I hit on when I visited Hammamet in Tunisia. Just six months since the revolution was unleashed with a single, desperate …

By Rupert Parker
Now the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) no longer advises against all but essential travel for Tunisia, UK holidaymakers will soon be returning to the North African country.
Although Tunisair has been operating its normal schedule since 17th January to Tunis, the major tour operators including Thomas Cook, Thomson and First Choice only resumed their flight schedules to Monastir on 27th February.
Anissa Ramoundi, the UK & Ireland Director for The Tunisian National Tourist Office says “Tunisia has experienced a period of political unrest and great change, however the …