Hotel Touring Casablanca

... differences it is currently Ramadan so many of the Muslims are not eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset. I think this is absolutely remarkable and I know I wouldn't be able to make it past 10 a.m. without some food in my stomach, I mean I am a Vanderby. In Morocco I traveled to Marrakech where I stayed 3 days and 2 nights. It was definitely cleaner in Marrakech than in Casablanca, and the people were ...

Today we were given a free day to relax, pack, shop for any last-minute souvenirs or do what we need to do so we feel good about traveling home tomorrow. I can't believe it! I'm a little sad, but looking forward to being home at the same time. Today I met a rotarian friend for coffee and this afternoon I am meeting up with a friend's ...

For those of you that don't know, and might be waiting at a yoga class or a coffee shop for me, i'm in Morocco. Casablanca, Morocco to be more exact, and won't be home until Tuesdqy, April 7 (yogis-i will hold you fully accountable for your practice as of 4/8. i am in morocco for 7 days; then sierra leone for 11 days, followed by 4 more days in morocco. the flight over was fairly uneventful (as you hope flights will be). i don't know which was more difficult, finding that ...

... we didn't have enough money to buy from this one guys store. He got pretty upset but I really was out of Moroccan money since we were leaving in a few hours and was only in the shop because Nkoyo wanted to try and find a watch. That encounter kind of ended my desire to shop or look around anymore in the Medina so we took a taxi back to the port to avoid getting drenched again and the intense Moroccan merchants. After dinner on the port the captain made ...

... mosque in Africa and met a nice German couple who we spent some hours chatting with while watching local surfers combat the 10 foot waves at the base of the mosque. In Casa, Dad and I ended up bumping into these 2 crazy locals who took us to a hookah café where I introduced my dad to the wonderful world of shisha. After the guys gave us a personal tour around the old Medina (town) at night, where we saw old houses built by the Spanish hundreds of years ago, and a wide ...

... men unfold one after another-every color and color combination, traditional and more primitive Berber designs, every size. Lynn came close to buying, but the price was too high (it was, I think $1375 for the small one). The one I liked I confessed only to Woody, who said he feared I'd picked out one of the most expensive ones--surprise. After the demonstration, different salesmen started to focus on each of the women and tried every ploy to convince us to buy ...

... vorbeigefahren - in einer Stadt von der Groesse Berlins! Nach zwei Stunden Warten ist dann schliesslich bei stroemendem Regen Yassine, ein wirklich total witziger Typ von Lillys Couchsurfing-Kram, vorbeigekommen und hat mich abgeholt. Die naechste Station war dann die Ueberraschung des Tages: Das Sadion Casablancas zum Ligaspiel Raja Casa gegen Tetouan!! Das Spiel selber war zwar nur mittelmaessig, dafuer war die Stimmung in der Fankurve die absolute Bombe. Auch nach dem 0:1 ...

... after much miming he finally took us to the wrong shops, we then tried to direct him around the town to no avail. We gave up and got out to try a new taxi. The second guy was not that much better but eventually caught on and said Amoud's Patisserie which he took us to and was only just around the corner from where we had started. Oh well. We asked him to wait as we went inside to spend. This Patisserie was gorgeous, beautiful patisseries and so beautifully presented and ...

... and 5,000 women in the other hall all participating in ritual washing at the same time! After lunch, for those whose gastrointestinal tracts were ...

... we were so lucky to have got away at all. Arrived at Casablanca airport at 3 am to be greeted by our guide, Mohammed. Poor guy had been waiting for 7 hours, not even sure whether we would arrive at all. We were desperate to get to our hotel but 2 of the women in our group were trying to locate their luggage. After a long fruitless wait, we boarded the coach for our hotel. Would love to say the hotel was worth the long wait but it was a dump ...