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... was pretty glad not to be travelling solo. I don't know how some of the young western girls you meet do it.
From Fes we then headed to the capital Rabat. Rabat was a little more cosmopolitan than Fes and Tangier. Although not particularly interesting its markets had these guys selling amazing sweets (a kilo of sesame bar was about $2) and was also the first place we (well, Sal) got abused for taking photos. A ...
Fleabag hotel stay over
... away. Got a ticket for 30Dh and Jumped on.
On the bus i got the Ipod and headphones out to entertain myself and my neighbour, an elderly Moroccan man was very eager to watch "sherlock holmes" with me. I shared the film and it was very entertaining to watch the old man twiddle his thumbs with delight when there was a scene of a lady undressing herself! yet nothing was revealed..
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A short visit to Safi
... to Safi to see this incredibly delightful and hopeful boy. After we left the coffee house Ahmed tried again to get me to buy him alcohol. I refused so he asked if I'd buy him a sandwich, to which I agreed. At the restaurant he ordered four meat skewers, salad and bread, supposedly for the both of us, even though I repeatedly said I was not hungry. As the food arrived a visibly drunk man entered the restaurant and came ...
Homecoming
I can't spend more than 24 hours here without making a visit to my old village. Luckily, there is plenty to see there so I don't worry to much about boring guests. I warned Katie, my travel buddy, that we'd have to do a lot of visiting but I'm not sure I adequately prepared her for the four day sugar high of drinking tea with ten families a day! ...
Off to Essouria
... had ended up in some kind of run down surburb miles from everywhere. We managed to hail a petit taxi who took us to the medina wall and then we wondered around for about an hour trying to find a hotel which wasnt full. We saw one at the north of the medina which was only 174 dirhams and had a room so we took it. it was quite nioce although the plaster was flaking onto the floor and any time you touched it you got covered in white powder. We went onto ...


