Utica

On Saturday, I went out to the Roman/Punic site of Utica. It's located on the drive to Bizerte, and is a small site and museum that you can go through in an hour or two. I'd recommend it if you're passing through, but in a country with so many great Roman sites, it's low on the list.
I went there with my new friend Mehdi, who just returned from his masters in LA as part of the Fulbright Scholarship Program (which we administrate for Tunisians at AMIDEAST). He's a very cool guy with impeccable English, and we had a nice early day in Utica before heading up to Bizerte to visit his family. His family has a beautiful house just outside the city along the water - about 5 minutes past Le Petit Mousse. We hung out there, saw the town a bit, and then had some very tasty wood-fired pizza at a restaurant that doubles as a petting zoo during the summer (that monkey sure looked cold).
Tonight, I'm meeting up with Mehdi to go to a local watering hole, Le Baroque, which is one of the classier and most decent places to get a Celtia around here.