Essaouira Fish Market

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After spending the morning to get caught up on by blog entries, I enjoyed a nice breakfast at the hostel. I had been the first one up in the hostel, but by this time people were starting to gather for breakfast. I did not have big plans for the day, so I would just take my time this morning, and maybe find someone to roam around the city with me. …

We wake late, that's the good thing about not having a window in your room! It is 8.30 and we eat our breakfast before going out to explore the town. Even so we are almost the first to rise, this is a backpackers hostel after all. Gill is clearly at home here, harking back to younger days. Ian is not so sure. Gill is glad these kind of places still …

... didn't see anything I particularly liked at the silver place, so I didn't buy anything there. After the tour, we had lunch at the fish market (FRESH fish). They piled so much fish on the plate that there was no way I could get through it all, but it was ...

... Morocco start bargaining on the price for your lunch. Walked up onto the ramparts which had some good views and then checkout out the fish market in the medina where you can also buy the fish and have it cooked there. It's cheaper than the port, but the ...

... 8211; some of which is sold in a handful of fish restaurants down by the harbour. We have other plans, we go to the local fish market which is in the centre of the Medina where locals purchase their fish and then take it to a small kitchen behind the ...

... faux branded belts, costume jewellery and Barbie backpacks. We checked out the port area where here was some intense fish market action happening in the afternoon. There were hundreds of little blue wooden boats and fishing trawlers and lots of ...

... to hostel life. We all went to our room (very very small) and chilled out for an hour and then headed out to the local fish market where we chose fresh fish from the market stalls first and this was then all cooked for us in the kitchen area. This was ...

... (about half a cow) hung from metal hooks with the heads of cows and goats sitting out front advertising the wares.  The fish market was filled with puddles as the day’s fresh catch was brought straight from the fishing boats and piled high on ...

... used clumps of seaweed. After walking the length of the beach (about 1.5km) we turned around and walked along the coast to the fish market, but the smell meant that we didn't stay for very long so we walked a bit further along the coast to a fortress ...

Essaouira has a fascinating fishing port, not unlike the tanneries in Fez or various workshops in the souks of Moroccan cities where you can see men hard at work in traditional manual professions.  Men here were busy hauling in fish catches, ...

... around Essaouira and found a "serious" spice shop that normally caters to locals.  After winding through narrow streets back towards the fish market, we sat in a shop that was so small it could barely be called a shop.  There was hardy room for ...

... may have been a completely different experience otherwise.    After enjoying our time at the cafe, we headed over to the fish market to find some food for Jason and Mary.  Ahmagi, being fluent in French, was able to communicate with the ...