Riad Doha Marrakech

I arrive into Marrikesh and instantly feel like I’ve landed in a 3rd world country, all I can see for miles is triple storey building with not trimmings, concrete monoliths erected for there sole purpose and built with purpose only in mind for storage or humans ...

De retour a marrakech pour recuperer notre compresseur et pour voir le garagiste qui nous a change les joints de la boite de transfert. Lui aussi il nous a fait de la *****. Il n a rien voulu savoir Ne pas aller chez Autoland a Marrakech. On a passe la nuit de dimanche dans le superbe riad de jany et philippe que l on remercie pour leur accueil.

... of a mission not to let rip-off taxi drivers get anything out of me now, even if its 46 degrees. Another neat Riad but a little out of the way (but in the Medina) with seemingly only one other guest & a failing restaurant.
So its another souk wander, dinner in the square & badly lost again on way back - I suspect I have walked as much post goats.
More wandering ...

So it's goodbye to Ahmed after a final pancake breakfast - he did a really good job. We travel back to Marrakech via the Waterfalls at D'Ouzoud, which are pretty good with a good level of water and a rainbow. However it's odd to be back with 'big bus' tourists (& their strange dress habits)and the never ending Arab sales patter. One guy tries to sell Andrea a choc ice for D30 which is £2.40. Yet another Tajine lunch and back to Marrakech with a kamikaze driver who sees each ...

Arrived without incident via Atlas Blue to a fairly traditional Riad close to the main Djemaa-el-fna square. Quite small room with a wet room but with the classic internal courtyard and roof terraces.
Evening spent strolling the centre and part of the souks and the first of a number of Tajines.
The Goat migration ...

... sur
marrakech. Vendredi reparation de la boite de transfert et resoiree
avec Patrick. Pat a vendu son camping car a Shafik un riche marocain
tres simple et bien rigolo. Le samedi nous sommes passe au riad de
Jannie et Philippe, apres midi tres agreable au calme en plein coeur
de marrakech. Nous voilà parti direction le sud. Escale dans
une petite foret ou nous avons passe la nuit.


Marrakech, Morocco quatrequart

Despite efforts to plan 8 months in advance of my big three O.... and the hope that a nice quiet house up in Scotland would appeal to most to come along and celebrate with me.... it just didn't happen! I'm not going into the in's and out's of the unpleasantness of the celebratory plans that failed to take place as it will remain raw and is best left untold! So to avoid the disappointment of not being anywhere ...

... false teeth. That night we hit the main square, which at dusk comes alive with food stalls, musicians and street performers. We dined on some local fare, shared a last beer (at the one and only pub in town) and called it a night. We were to be at the airport at 6.30am the next morning to fly to Venice, while Em and Laura were to leave in the days following. Morocco hadn't been the crazy party we'd imagined. With the exception of ...

... period (I think the late 1800's) the reigning king died and his eldest son was only 14. The Vizier ruled the country for about 7 years until the boy was old enough to take the throne. Anyway, this guy had 4 wives and over 20 concubines. The wives each had their own suite of rooms but the poor concubines had to double up. I find learning about history this way more interesting than visiting museums ...