Got back yesterday from a week in PEK, ramadan did not have any effect on the holiday.

The Golf Brau was open all day and evenings and served both food and beer, Dunkel and Hellas. Wonderful place with good food also, pizza and tomato salad excellent with a nice beer. Octopus salad also worth a try.

Around the Marina they were serving food and drink during the daytime. I would personally rather drink seven up or coke than alcohol free beer as it leaves an bad aftertaste in your mouth, a bit like cold stewed tea. Yet the waiters are so desperate to get your custom they will tell you anything. We would probably have sat down for a diet coke on a hot day anyway but were assured it was alcoholic beer. It was indeed alcohol free, when we then asked for a bottle of Celtia next they would not give us any .... they said because of ramadan. Rest my case, but why tell such blatant lies ... I know many Muslims in the UK and if they lie during the month of ramadam in theory it negates the whole of their fasting. These people are either not strict Muslims or this does not apply in Tunisia.

We of course had a wonderful holiday,.... after 4 visits now you ignore the lying and conmen, its quite funny really at times. It maybe that as the country is so poor they have no choice but to stretch the truth. The old waiter in your hotel routine wears a bit thin when approached every 200 metres on the 15 minute walk to the Marina. I just ask them which hotel is that ... and they get the message normally or guess the wrong one. Gotcha. One elderly couple on our flight fell for it and then surprise surprise spent 3 hours in a carpet factory. They were not at all happy. Its a bit like the Tunisian equivalent of scratch cards.

I would not go again in October the weather was not that good for our week. First four days acceptable with plenty of sunshine but the holiday was spoilt a little by bad thunderstorms on last 3 days. Could not leave hotel at all for one day, it was that bad an umbrella was a waste of time.