Riad La Maison Nomade 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 ...

... jda efter ett besök på torget där vi blev inkastade i Borats lilla hörn och avnjöt grillspett, grönsaker, och de klassiska pitabröd som verkar vara den enda brödsort de har här. På torget kan man även äta sniglar som säljs i små stånd och dricka nypressad apelsinjuice eller te och titta på magdans, ormtjusare, gubbar som går runt och spelar på ett litet instrument och snurrar med tofsen på sin hatt m.m. Här verkar det ok ...

... 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 ...

... monkeys doing twirls in their petty coats. This city caters to the tourist. But the real show doesn’t start till dusk when the night market begins. The main square, which lies almost empty in the day, is filled with roll out restaurants, souvenir shops and everything else you could possible imagine. It is truly a sight to behold. The colors are mesmerizing as you walk down the aisles of the Medina where shop keepers try to entice you into buying anything from leathers to ...

... understanding; Abraham didn't know the end of the story, he didn't know God's plan. And that's what faith is-sacrificing our most beloved without necessarily knowing the end. God doesn't always tell us the end, He just tells us to trust Him. Sacrifice is bloody, and it was made so real to me through L'Eid. It made my favorite Psalm verse really stand out: Ps. 37:3-4 says "Trust in the Lord and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord ...

... 1084;и же рукам 80; он накла 76;ывает в тарел 82;и салат, отсчи 90;ывает грязн 99;е деньг 80;, разли 74;а ...

... 1077;ня назад в 21 век, мне жутко захоч 77;тся верну 90;ься. Не спраш 80;вайте, почем 91;. Хуй его знает.

... itself was not very long to the hotel, it was pretty interesting to see 5 people squeezed into the back of the ancient mercedes cab. Our hotel rooms the definitely the most spacious of the trip. Even the toilet had its own room with door! Once we unloaded some of the our stuff we all went for a walk and dinner to Djemma El Fna. We were about 15-20 minutes away from the famous square. As we approached, you could hear a buzz all around you. it was a mix of people talking ...

So its the last day of the trip, will be home tomorrow evening. We arrived in marrakesh 2 days ago and have taken ourselves off on a tour around the ed badii palace, medina, Majorelle walled gardens owned by yves saint lauranrt and the museum which was incredibly beautiful, probably my fave building  this trip. the hotel is a bit grotty but fortunately we have one of the rooms that doesnt smell of sewage so its not too bad ...

... of French than me. It is his first test as such, as Western Europe doesn't qualify as exotically challenging. My mindset is more of "this country better not be like frickin' Egypt" as we toddle off to find a taxi. I am stuck with only a bare few French words plus the lyrics to 'Lady Marmalade' as the only local language skills I have, unless you also include 'hello' and 'thank you' in Arabic. The first taxi gets rejected by me as too costly, the hardened veteran walking ...