Hisham Hotel Marrakech

Situé en plein coeur de la médina, à quelques pas du port et de la plage, le Riad Chakir Mogador est le lieu privilégié de votre escale à Essaouira.


Cette maison d'hôtes, entièrement restaurée dans le pur respect des traditions et de l'architecture ...

... were made mint tea and checked out all the channels Morocco gets on TV. Lots
I tell you. Many middle eastern, lots of Arabic and even MTV music channels,
news, soaps, the whole shebang. All of this is quite obvious but I was more
interested in the types of soaps they had. Some were slapstick comedies and
others were serious ‘Days of Our Lives’ types. Then we discovered a Looney Tunes
channel and I realised just how patriotic and embarrassing they had ...

From the fun flats of Marrakech...we made our way to the High Atlas mountains for well...mountains of magnificent hiking and views.

Jebel Toubkal stands at 4200m above sea level and at that is the highest most point in northern Africa and also a bit of a mission! We made it up the mighty mountain in a few days and did some sleeping, sun burning and Scrabble in there as well. An absolutely incredible adventure!

Back down and all set to embark on a road trip to Fez!

XXX

After immense Irish experiences and an interesting and equally incredible adventure in Italy i arrived in Morocco having met both big brother Jage and eventually Stewart in Milan...

We made our way to the mad, mixed and amazing Marrakech with a few friends we found along the way and ended up in the midst of Ramadan at a funky guesthouse hidden away in the ...

... 8230;.into it went a shiny 5 Durham coin. I gave him a hair rub and his Mom looked up and said something. No words. But big-time connection.

What if the boys have a sister tomorrow night…..! Susan figures a whole damn neighbourhood of kids will be at that turn in the alleyway tomorrow morning waiting for the crazy tourist to pass. I wonder if they’ll be OK with 2010 Olympic pins?... I’ve run out ...

... be an incredible picture to shoot at each and every corner, but the people here really get a fit when you take a picture of them. The Egyptians seemed far more relaxed about this. Pull out a camera here and you will feel like a rapist in a monastery. No telephoto lens is long enough. They will spot you. I started shooting out of the hip like John Wayne, without looking through the viewfinder, but I got caught. When ...

... up spending three nights in Marrakech as the boys did some work on the truck so it also gave us an opportunity to restock supplies, hide the booze for our upcoming boarder crossing into dry Mauritania and generally get reorganised. Our locker is still stuffed to the max but at least we have it all in there and not scattered about the truck as a certain other person has. I have a feeling all out war is about to break... especially with the ...

... já me chega a diarreia e afins...
Bem
lá passou...chegamos ao hotel que paraíso...aqui percebo porque se
chora quando se vê um oásis, não é pela sede, é por causa do rabo....
Descanso....piscina soube mesmo bem....
Dia
seguinte fazer os trilhos do Paris-Dakar bem o nosso "driver" o Speedy
como nós carinhosamente lhe chamávamos, o tipo tem o pé pesado....150
160 km/h em pleno deserto de pedra vulcânica...não gostava de chegar em
segundo...

... of a mess if it got caught up in your spokes!!!! I wonder if they sell djellabah clips like we have trouser clips? Then approaching nearer the city we went past some form of garden - I believe looking at the map it was the Arset Bab Er Robb - an old man in a blue and white stripey djellabah with matching hat was sat on a wall, and just along from him hanging by a claw from the top of the railings was some kind of (dead) chicken - maybe earlier in the day he'd ...

... of tourists. still it was gd to see storytellers (arabic) and oldschool pharmacists amongst the guys dancing around like monkeys and then offering their cap to the tourists. we had a great time shopping here, less pressure as the merchants were all crazy asking 20times what the things were worth and then backing down so rapidly you almost cant keep up.