Riad Assilah Chefchaouen
Travel Blogs from Chefchaouen
Alles Blau
... Boeden, die Waende und Decken unseres Zimmers, die Muelleimer und die Bettdecken, alles ausser die Katzen.
Das gibt ein Feeling wie in der Smaragdenstadt, nur in Blau statt gruen und man muss keine Brille aufsetzen...
Ziemlich krass und da es auch nen Kaelteeinbruch gibt n bisschen wie ein Maerchen aus dem Eispalast. Das Eiserne Herz oder so.
Die Katzen haben hier uebrigens ein tolles Leben. Hunde gibts hier so gut wie nicht, ...
Carpet trouble
... It turns out he’s learnt all his English from watching TV but he can’t read a word of it. He has some super expensive fancy satellite dish on his house and receives like a million channels so he watches programs from everywhere. We actually had a fairly lengthy conversation about whether Azaria Chamberlain really was taken by a dingo. I’m sitting there thinking 'This is the most bizarre conversation I ever could have imagined having in ...
Merci
... j'ai oublié un mot très important. Comment dit-on 'thank you' en français?"
She laughed, a little taken aback by the question, as if she wasn't sure that I was really asking what I was asking. Her reply initially did not include the word "merci", but eventually it did...and then I remembered. Heh.
With the glass wall now broken, we chatted a little more. Turns out she actually doesn't speak too much French, although I could ...
FIRST ENCOUNTERS WITH NORTH AFRICANS
... farms, possibly more than the blue medina or the national park, attracted tourists to Chefchaoun. The Spanish loved Chefchaoun! The farms specialized in hasheesh. Kifi. Marijuana.
"Bonjour. Ca va?" a young Moroccan would greet me on the street. (Most salesmen knew French, Spanish, and English.) "Are you French?" "No. Am--" "Spanish?" "No. Am--" "English?" "No. Am--" "Italian?" "No. American." "Aah! Welcome ...
Goodbye Essaouira, Hello Rif
... The three hour bus ride from Tangiers to Chefchaouen was beautiful. Not far outside of Tangiers, the Rif mountains started. On top of the range that surrounded Tangiers, the mountains were lined with wind turbines. Not really the picturesque beauty of the High Atlas, but still a welcomed sign of a second world country having a progressive outlook on energy. Further into the mountains, through a pass between two peaks, we wound our way through ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet