Al Mounia Casablanca

11.1.09 Tiny Planes And Smelly Trains &#8211; Lisbon To Casablanca To Marrakesh (Morocco)!<br><br>We were up at 6am in Lisbon this morning in order to make our 9:30am flight to Casablanca, Morocco. After checking our bags, getting through customs, grabbing some breakfast, and waiting for a while at the gate, we were ushered on to a bus outside for a (very, unusually) long trip past all the gates and around what seemed to be the entirety of the tarmac. When the bus ...

... couldn&#8217;t really ever know what to expect. They would never let you take pictures without hassling you for money, so I apologize about the lack of pictures at that place or at many places in Morocco, because that happened everywhere. You couldn&#8217;t walk 4 feet without someone asking for money or trying to sell you something. So we had dinner at the hotel again and then went to this fantasia horse show that night. It was very touristy but ...

Favorite city: Agadir: I love the water and the boardwalk, as well as the not-as-many people. Cities I wanted to spend more time in: Meknes (2 nights) and El Jadida (1 night) Favorite food: bastilla (with chicken or fish) Food I don't regret trying: camel Least favorite food: brain Food I started to get tired of: lamb tagine Things I regret not doing: taking better notes about what we did, taking more photos Favorite ...

... the rooms. Mohammad also told us about how this club, along with clubs in Britain and France funded pipelines to get water to people out in the country more easily. We saw people on the roads carrying water in jugs, as some families without running water how to travel several kilometers to have access to it. He said some of these families earn less than $1 a day. He also said they are trying to get water out to one of the local schools. Because of the work Rotary did, almost ...

Alarm went off at 4am and we got up, showered, dressed, packed and were picked up in the bus and dropped at the airport. We had to show our passports and tickets so many times it was crazy! Finally checked in and headed upstairs to the food court for a cappuccino at Starbucks for me. Another bus to get out to the plane on the tarmac, then we had to wait in the bus about 15 mins as they were still cleaning the plane. We were about 30 mins late taking off. As ...

... me too. I loved Marrakech but I am a pansy in the cold and I had been cold for almost a solid 24 hours by then and just wanted to see our glorious ship that I had never appreciated so much until that night, haha. So, 4 of us took one insane train ride back that we almost missed because we were sprinting through the streets of Marrakech to make it on time. It was a three hour train ride back to Casablanca in a sketchy train with a broken window in our compartment. When we ...

Morocco has been on our list of places to visit since we started to think about visiting Europe just under a year ago and we are very happy that we made it. You may have read by now about the insanity which is Marrakech and the peace that is Essouria; now it is time to introduce the commercial grittiness that is Casablanca. Casablanca is the commercial capital of Morocco, Rabat is the political capital. As a result, Casablanca has all the symptoms of a large commercial hub; people ...

Depois da capital, a capital economica. A minha intenção era simplesmente que me deixassem na saida da autoestrada para eu voltar a entrar imediatamente seguindo a direcção de Marrakech onde contava com o Raki para me dar alojamento e refeição. Era o dia do aniversario da minha mãe e a minha unica resolução para esse dia era de ligar-lhe para lhe dar os parabéns e claro um sinal de vida. Fazia uma semana que tinha partido e ainda ninguém sabia do meu paradeiro ...

... of all cheap. We squealed like pigs and set about spending every last sent we thought we could afford. So off we go back to the port in the taxi loaded up with a ridiculous amount of goodies and we watched in horror as the metre seemed to double and triple in the space of seconds. Our problem was we had estimated how much the taxi would cost based on previous experience and somehow this went way beyond our expectation so I had to leave Connie as hostage and run back ...

... in Casablanca, and is was quite an adventure to locate. We took a taxi to the Casa suburb of Oasis. The taxi driver had no idea where Rue ...