Dar Nilam Tangier

... coast as the sky darkened, mainly flat land with lots of rubbish and
donkeys around.

The train
stopped on and off but it was the last one that we sat for two hours that made
us think perhaps our luck had run out. We spoke to a girl about our age who was
from the next city coming up – Myknes, just before Fez which was our
destination – and she had some nice things to say about the place. So when we heard
through the grapevine that half the train had ...

... was open. There was not a soul on the streets. It was 11am. Failing to find food and seeing nothing even slightly entertaining around we thought we should head straight to the ferry terminal and enquire about tickets to get the hell out. Turned out there are ferries to Spain running every hour. I do not understand why since we did not see any sign of a booming tourism trade in this city.

We went for a wander along the beach where a ...

... captured audience unable to leave until all had finished buying and it really wasn't a lot of fun any more. Eventually we left and moved on to a really funny little guy doing a pitch for Arab and Berber medicines. He had everything from lipstick that changes colour to herbal viagara, from essence to stop you snoring to various aids for the digestion. The aussies and I discussed our prospects of getting any of it through our Ag and Wildlife lots and decided ...

... green and brown with a hood and i think it will be useful in Egypt. People in town were preparing for Ramadan to end by stocking up on all the foods and goodies. Donkeys pulling carts laden with produce rolled into town and we decided to roll out and get settled in Tanger before the country grinds to a halt for the end of Ramadan celebrations. You would think from reading the blogs that we have not enjoyed Morocco at all because of ...

... lounging around on sofas and looking out over the city. Our first night we make a beeline for Djemma el Fna, the vast central square of Marrakech. It's a site to behold - the whole square is thick with smoke from the scores of open air restaurants and foodstalls making every variety of food (snail soup, grilled meats and fish, egg sandwiches, etc), there are musicians, story-tellers, snake-charmers, etc. Next day we meet up with Lisa and she took us around to some of her ...

... he spotted an acquiantance across the street who he knew to have a rental place.  Unsurprisingly, both the place and the price were bigger than what he had asked for, but after a lot of shouting between the two men (and us beginning to walk away), he accepted our price and gave us the key.  Good to go! Upon leaving the apartment again, I was really struck by just how different an Islamic country is from back home. I thought I was prepared for the cultural ...

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... away then ... Since I'm here during Ramadan, I'm more or less observing the fast. Partly out of respect and partly due to the fact that food isn't highly available anyway. However, a couple times I've given in and had a beverage during the day -- it's not easy walking around all day long without a drop to drink. Many restaurants are closed entirely, even after sunset. One fun thing to do is to go to a cafe just before sundown and grab a table. You order some ...