Dar Soukaina 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 ...

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Efter att ha tillbringat natten på en kall flygplats i Barcelona var det otroligt skönt att igår eftermiddag äntligen komma fram till Marrakesh och få vila hela eftermiddagen på vårt toppenmysiga riad (typ hotell) "Marhaba”. Mot våra förväntningar var Marrakesh kallt och regnigt, så vi fick plocka fram elementet i rummet och dra på oss långkalsongerna.

Idag är det fint soligt väder och vi ...

... and left to have your own adventure. Side trips can be taken but they aren’t always organized by the driver. The road conditions vary from paved, dirt, mud, and everything in the middle. Sometimes you wonder how it is physically possible to make it through the narrow passengers that our driver navigates or the streets full of people and parked cars. It puts Austin Powers to shame. But there is really no other way to see Africa, at least for me.

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... 1087;еред 72;ть, они слишк 86;м двухм 77;рные. Нет, дело в том, что здесь вообщ 77; друго 77; измер 77;ни ...

... space that people have why would you invade it so much just deal with your own little space its so rude!

Apart from the idiots in front of us the flight was ok we thought it was only 2 hours but it turned out to be 3 as Morroco have the same time as us back in the UK. We got off the plane and had to wait ages to get through passport control then when we got out there was a man waiting for us with the name of the Riad, I always wanted to come to the airport and have ...

Met a fine fellow from Wales as a hopped off the bus in Marrakech (from Essouria). He was looking for an economical riad to stay and I knew just the place - the riad I'd dumped my rugs at just days prior.

After settling in, I invited him to tag along w/ me to grab a geocache at Menara Gardens. LOL ...

... you by in Dubai!). The next day it was back to Bangkok and what a pleasure it was to be back in Asia where there is some concept of customer service! We stayed in a hotel called the Metropolitan which we've stayed at a few times before and it was good to be back. Great room, decent price and a fantastic swimming pool. Dinner with friends in Bangkok and we almost felt relaxed again after our 'holiday'! It's fair to say that we did enjoy Morocco itself but ...

... we could also do the relaxing by the pool thing. Inside the walls of the hotel of course we could have been anywhere, but step outside and it could be a well-to-do quartier of Paris (yes, here my pigeon French came in very handy). Of course all this was in now way preparation for what was to await us inside the actualls walls of the city. Once you get past the grand old La Mamounia - and we did, but not before a quick ...