Auberge Tangaro Essaouira
Quartier Diabat, BP8 Essaouira, Morocco
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... bread and small salad just a little higher, and biscuits / cakes come in at a dozen for around $2.00 AUD. Special mention should also go to our lunch from yesterday (the date of this entry) in a lovely cafe run by two ex-pat Brits, La Cantina. The prospect of Mexican-ish food, and hot English Tea (in a pot) was too good to resist as a comforting reminder of the selection we have at home. Portions at La Cantina are generous, and whilst we may not be in a position to ...
'The windy city is mighty pretty'
... my ticket to Casablanca on the night bus that evening. Incredibly, all the drivers and other men were all on long cane mats, praying outside the station building! I went on to toake a great walk all around the external perimeter of the medina, where a local, local market was in full swing. The weather had greatly improved today, with sunny blue skies that persisted all day, instead of turning wild and windy in the afternoon.!
I ...
Essaouira/the Jimi Hendrix experience/naughty boys
... had some beautiful little squares to sit and relax in. We had heard previously that this would be a small hippy town, but as we looked around we found it to be a fairly middle class tourist destination. There were a few old hippies who'd settled and worked in some of the shops and a few surfers on the beach, but the only remains of the hippy culture we saw there were the Moroccans selling hash cakes on the beach and others offering camel rides to ...
Salaam from Marocco
... of bonjour madame, good prize madame, com’on in madame….. Then there is the amazing Jemma el Fna square: a place that turns up hundreds of vendors who set up their booth every evening to cook and sell food right there. On the other side of the square you have the story tellers, music players and occasional snake tamer (correct word?) people walking around with monkeys, women offering to do henna designs or foretelling your future. ...
I can see myself living here
... making Ramadan” as they say it here. It has been 8 days and I feel great!
I met Amad, musician and owner of Trance Music shop in the medina. It’s a tiny hole in the wall full of African musical instruments and CDs. Amad plays most of the instruments in the shop, while Abdo plays drums. Gnawa music is often heard from the speaker attracting the usual tourists from Italia, France, Spain, etc. ...



