Riad Albizzia Marrakech

Confirming my ever-strong belief in fate and allworking out eventually, we ended up in Morocco right on time for the 2009 Marrakech Film Festival! As film fanatics, we hot-well, actually cold-footed it-from freezing cold Casa to Marrakech making it just in time for films galore...

Getting back to the Western world is weird after adventures in African countries like Mali and Senegal as it seems so different yet only a drive-or even briefer flight ...

... kollat in staden ordentligt och irrat runt bland alla små gator och torg där de säljer allt möjligt och omöjligt bl.a. på jakt efter fina tofflor som Astrid vill ha med sig till Sverige. Jag (Karin) har redan blivit pålurad en henna-tatuering vars pris varierade mellan gratis och 400 dirham (knappt 400 sek). Slutligen kom vi ”överens” om 50 dir (försäljerskan var inte så nöjd med detta). Här är många sköna m ...

... through. This is not your average tour. An overlanding tour is you plus twenty or more of your new closest friends living off an overlanding truck, a huge truck with a passenger compartment with flaps as windows and well worn seats all facing inward. Cooking gear and truck stuff goes in the undercarriage compartments while our stuff, tents and food go in compartments found under the seats and floors of the cab. Essentially you are hauled from place to ...

... hut. By the way, Pizza hut is an incredibly posh restaurant in Morocco so it seems with proper wait staff and an extensive menu. I don’t think I’ve ever had pizza hut that tasted that good!

That night it rained, and I mean RAINED. Everyone who had been out all day in the city returned to the campsite completely drenched while those of us who stayed ran around trying to make sure there were rain covers on all the tents and all the electronics were in dry areas. No ...

... liver and lung will stay with me the rest of my life. There were probably five women in that kitchen, all helping prepare the food, and they let me take part. They were all speaking Arabic and I couldn't understand anything and I could not have been happier. The kabobs switched off-one piece lung, one piece liver, all the pieces wrapped in thin slices of fat. Nassima and I took them up to the roof and roasted them over the coals in pots until the fat was popping. That lunch was ...

... 1081; доли реаль 85;ой культ 91;ры этой стран 99;. Мои друзь 03;и прост 86; случа 81;ные знако 84;ые расс ...

... 1089;ь, скажи 90;е мне. У меня есть такое чувст 74;о, что как тольк 86; самол 77;т взлет 80;т и понес 77;т ...

... and has a pool in the middle and only 5 rooms. The owners are staying here with two of their friends - they are very nice. We had dinner on the roof in the Magic Carpet room, which is actually a big terrace surrounded by curtains and covered in carpets. The moon is now a waxing gibbis and we could hear the call to prayer - it was a cool dinner. Sandra, who helps at the riad, came up and read us the story of Yela, who used to live in this house. They ...

... in a shop via my standard charades while the shop keeper chattered away in French to me. Finally communication success! He understood what I was after and opened up a pack of Clairol Hair Dye from his shelf, pulled out the gloves and gave them to me. I tried to pay and ask the price but he kept repeating "gratuite" and a fellow shopper translated as she thought my exclamations were due to the fact that I hadn't understood: "eeez freeeeee ...

Friday 18th May

Our first full day in Marrakech was interesting. Mark and I woke to the sunrise call to prayer, a haunting yet comforting sound that filled the Medina. The sun was scorching by breakfast at 8.30 up on the roof-top terrace so we realised we would have to spend at least the middle part of the day at home. It was reassuring to see a number of other Europeans at breakfast though - at least we were not alone, which was our main concern on arrival the ...