Hotel Bellerive Casablanca

... we just felt like we had to. We saw a few scuffles and almost fights between vendors about various things, it was a pretty crazy place. They had snake charmers and monkey guys and stuff out in the middle of the square. Katie had gone the day before and said they were walking near one of the monkey guys, and he wanted them to look at the monkey and they didn’t really want to so he literally threw the monkey at her. The people were crazy like that ...

... about that as things go on. We must have walked for over an hour at times completly lost beyond hope, eventually we had to pay a guy to take us to the hotel and it is ridicules but we never would have found it otherwise. Why does no-one know the film?

... headed west out of Cairo, I got a look at the Pyramids from the air and was surprised how small they looked from so high up. The flight went out into the Mediterranean at one point but most of the time we were flying over desert as far as you could see. We got breakfast and drinks but there were no movies to watch which made it a very long flight. About half way through we passed a mountain range covered in snow. We filled in the time doing some puzzles ...

... Idiots. Of course they were getting caught! Getting caught results in dock time too. I swear I live with some morons on this ship. When we left Casablanca, the stabilizers were still off. I had a rough night. We sat in the piano lounge and videotaped everyone falling over. However, my chair flipped over too and I crashed my head into a wall. One of my friends thought that I had hit with so much force on my neck that I had broken it at first. Then, they all thought I had ...

... grandstanded them by taking one of the snakes in her hand. You'll notice my pictures are taken from some distance. You have to pay individuals to take a picture of them-I paid a snake guy just to stay away. We went to see the outside of the Ali ben Youssef mosque, the oldest in Morocco, built in the 12th century, and also to see a La Bahia, a 19th-century palace that housed a king and his wives and concubines, and the royal Saadian tombs. The market square is ...

... buildings which backed on to new high rise apartments, and made it to our hostel in an old medina square.  Dropping our unnecessary things we went wandering in the medina looking for food, watching our backs the entire time because we had heard that the Casablanca medina was a good place to buy back your stolen goods.  Judging from the wide variety of luggage tags at one of the stalls this may have in fact been true, although for the most part it seemed ...

... up to the coast of Morocco shrouded in mist as we make our way towards Casablanca. Pete tries to call the Yacht club only to be informed that it is closed down and we need to travel another 11nm north. Aarrrggg. At least it's not south... Arrived in Mohammedia and received a warm welcome from the Marina manager. Our fears of how welcome we would be here were allayed. After a quick clean for our visitors The Glover Family, we made our way to the train station and head by ...

... stands majestic on the coast of the Atlantic. It has the tallest religious minaret in the world, standing at 200 metres. The mosque is built ...

... the information screens in the small foyer just inside the doors. It was a miserable and desperate sight, everyone sensing there was a real possibility that they may not be getting away after all. Every few minutes an announcement was made, cancelling yet another flight. Some people were in tears, frantic to get home to their families for Christmas. We were sent upstairs to wait in the arrivals hall to wait to see if our flights were ...