“Tunis marine” is also where my bus arrived from the airport, it has a shared taxi station and a metro station. The tram takes about a ½ hour to Carthage, and along the way I got a sense of the industrial port of Tunis. The tram is modest and the stations in need of some repair; not anymore than stations all over the world, but I reacted to the contrast with the neighborhood.
Because the contemporary residential district seems to indicate folks here are as well off if not more so than in the area along the beach north of Sousse.
I passed pickup at a school with the parents waiting outside in their cars, looking a lot like pickup at a small suburban school in the States. Nearby was this tennis club.
In the old days this was also a nice place to live. The Punic residents had airy houses up the hill.
Then when the Romans’ destroyed and rebuilt it, they constructed a huge public bath right on the beach.
Even though now one can only see the underground parts, a sign overlooking the site really helps.
More evidence of this being a spot those with means are drawn to: from the Antonine baths you can see the (a?) Presidential residence. (It is the series of white constructions on the hill.)
The whole area could not be more beautiful at this time of year, cool and windy but not cold and with the Mediterranean air.
From Middletown to the Middle East 