Riad Nerja Hotel Marrakech

Situé en plein coeur de la médina, à quelques pas du port et de la plage, le Riad Chakir Mogador est le lieu privilégié de votre escale à Essaouira.


Cette maison d'hôtes, entièrement restaurée dans le pur respect des traditions et de l'architecture ...

... managed to dodge them luckily.

Watching
everyone set up the night food market made me very hungry so we went back to
get Nick and set off for dinner, finally choosing a place where we I had
vegetarian cuscus, shrimp and olives. While we were eating dinner a monkey
escaped from his owner and there was a big hullabalou as the monkey ducked
under stalls and ran, his owner chasing after him. Just as the owner caught him
another monkey on a lead jumped onto ...

From the fun flats of Marrakech...we made our way to the High Atlas mountains for well...mountains of magnificent hiking and views.

Jebel Toubkal stands at 4200m above sea level and at that is the highest most point in northern Africa and also a bit of a mission! We made it up the mighty mountain in a few days and did some sleeping, sun burning and Scrabble in there as well. An absolutely incredible adventure!

Back down and all set to embark on a road trip to Fez!

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... magnificent mazes of Marakesh. After the events of my manic few months back in Britain, i was up for a few days of down time but the city soon sucked me in.

Between BIG sleeps and snuggles with the resident cats, camp land lord and lovely courtyard at our hotel, we wound our way amongst the amazing stalls, scenery and scents of an awesome place.

It ...

... are exchanged. Seconds later, I have the immigration paper and my passport pushed back under the window and am told, in Arabic, to go someone over there? I drift around over there, look back….he’s talking to me in Arabic like I should understand….so I go over there and fill out ANOTHER immigration paper. Back in line, now at the back of it. Remember that other plane that landed? Soon we spot another ...

... sun. Now picture him sitting next to my white ass, rocking out to daft punk on my ipod wearing my duck shirt. Exactly, I blended right in. After getting into the city, I dealt with the devil taxi drivers again and agreed to get ripped off. I then couldn't find a hostel that had any vacancies. This was one of the first times I hadn't booked ahead. Now I know why. Then this guy came up to me and offered to find me a room ...

... originates in Palestine. So here I am, and sometimes I do wonder if I stepped on board a Boeing 737 to get here, or was it really a time machine. Luckily, every few minutes you get almost run over by a motorcycle in those narrow winding streets, so the time machine is kind of out of the question, but then you walk a little further, take a side lane into some spooky neighbourhood and start to wonder again. There ...

... br>Jantamos dentro da haima, um Tagine maravilhoso de frango,
arroz branco para limpar e muitas, muitas bananas, cola sem gás e pão,
o pão é divinal.
A noite, o silencio não consigo descrever, não tenho palavras, é é não sei...adorei.
As estrelas parecem que estão a meio metro dos nossos olhos.
Dia seguinte decidimos regressar a nossa vida de "Lords" pois não é facil a vida de nomada.
Meu Deus mais horas de dromedário.....AIIIIIII o meu rabo ...

I fall in love with Morocco... the colours, the light, the people, the food, the smile on people's face... Programme of the week; horse riding in the Atlas, tennis, walking, spa, dinks in the most beautifull Riad, and a lot of souking... So different, out of time, relaxing. I will come back!

... this afternoon. Looking forward to it. I leave tomorrow morning at 6:30am to go to Casablanca. From there, I am on a 2pm flight to Dubai -7.5 hrs flying-(arriving 1:30am local time & that is May 1st), where I'll spend the night. On May 2nd, I'll travel to Ghana -8.5 hrs flying- where I'll be staying with a local family. You may not hear from me for a few days. I also know that I need to fill in the missing days in Morocco.