Longtime president Ben Ali had been toppled, and the country was jubilant – local shopkeepers ran out to shake our hands, rejoicing that they could talk freely after living in the shadow of a dictatorship.
Months later I returned to holiday in Tunisia. It was the perfect destination for a beach holiday with a difference; its culture and (delicious) local cuisine unique, and its people just as happy and welcoming as in the immediate aftermath of the revolution.
