Hotel Bordeaux El Jadida

<br><br>A quelques jours pres<br>voici la suite de notre periple <br><br>Apres Meknes nous avons<br>fait une petite escale a El jadida au sud de Casa Blanca pour<br>quelques heures, Guillaume a eu le temps de perdre une couronne.<br>Cette station balneaire sans interet nous a pas inspire. Nous avons<br>repris la route en direction de walidia,<br>

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We are spending the night in El Jadida, as we need to be close to Casablanca tomorrow. Once we make our stop in Casablanca, we will head to Rabat, the capital. Last night we had a nice meeting with the rotary club in Agadir, following by dinner. The people who took care of us there were so terrific - really great people, as it has been everywhere. I also taught the president how to "polka" as I had the beer barrel polka handy on my ...

... I feel much better. On to car rental. On the road. I opted to drive so I could stop more often than being on a bus or with a larger tour group. But if I had it to do again I would pay Zaid the extra to provide transportation.

Aujourd'hui nous avons quitté Rabat après avoir visité le Mausolé de Mohamed V, puis La Kasbah des Oudéyas. Superbe. Là où c'est déjà un peu l'aventure, pour ceux qui n'y croient pas, c'est de traverser les centres ville de Fès, Meknès, puis Rabat et aujourd'hui Casa et d'y trouver l'hôtel choisi et les sites à visiter...sans guide, sans nom d ...

... us that hashish was good but injecting drugs was bad and said this wasnt the way to the resaurant but if we waited til he dropped of his fish he would show us where. So off we went. but he had to speak to many people along the way so whenever he stopped he would take us inside the stone walled sheds on the docks and the fisherman would excitedly show us their catches for the day. In one room there were about a dozen ...

... the strike. Someone lobbed a grenade in a bus that was driving around, killing several. Here, there was (mostly) full solidarity. Anyway, we got a cabbie to stop for us and it was a good thing. I was pretty tired and we had a long ways to go to the hotel. Of course the hotel bathroom had a problem. The sink leaked which gave Mike something to do. We immediately liked El Jadida. Not many other tourists, a real, sandy beach ...

... us stared out the back window as the three men drew maps in the soft sand illuminated by the taxi's headlights. Apparently none of us knew where we were going. He laughed as he got back into the car and pulled us up to our hotel far away from city lights. A full moon ushered us into beautiful rooms. Paper lanterns softly lit the warm earth colored walls, and I sank into a deep sleep beneath warm blankets.

... in what I would have called white robes - but is called gandora - talking so loud so the whole room echoed and the police men were on the move. I didn't really get it what was going on. And then us, the few people who had come in the plane form London had our luggage in hand, the police officers pushed away the people in white robes to make a path for us Westerners.<br><br>Once I got out of that crowded room I found my way to where the train was but first I needed ...

Cigarette selling Kids, Ramparts, Fish Market Restaurants, dirtier beach than Paradise, Asilah, 2 nights here, then meeting Emma in Marrakech. Was a mission getting a taxi to Marrakech from El Jadida. Had a problem leaving cos Tim got beefy with some mechanic guy at the Bus station. He said he was trying to help us. Tim thinks he was trying to rip us off and everyone started hating our guts. I think Fes might have been right.