Hotel Le Littoral Casablanca

... veils. Naturally, a lot of the girls on our boat don’t have clothes like that and many have bright blonde hair. They were warned that they may get stares and possibly bothered by some of the people. Also, we were there during their holy month of Ramadan, during which they fast from sunup to sundown. We were told not to eat or drink in public and it was tougher to find food places there during the day. Almost all of this was true in Casablanca ...

... Foods  did a show there and I believe it.  We saw some wierd ****.  There were cow brains, sheep heads, all kinds of seafood, unidentifiable vegetables.  Lots of olives and lots of fresh orange juice stands.  I think it was the best OJ I've ever had. It was 5 dirham for a small cup, which is about 60 cents.  Shopping in the souq was right behind all the entertainment and the food and it was equally crazy.  The vendors ranged in age from 10 to about 70 and they were all ruthless ...

... an idiot here because I swear I'm the only person in this country who can't speak three languages, nevermind two. It's making it a little hard to get around, but I'll manage. I wandered the medina streets alone last night, even though the guidebook did not recommend that. I met a guy name Wissa, also known at Geno, the self proclaimed "king of the medina". I figured he was just ...

... song with the new catchy phrase being "No Land." It was all about our voyage and lack of being able to go into Morocco yet. It was really funny and they got a standing ovation for it. I am spending the morning in Casablanca and then heading to Rabat in the afternoon with S@S for a field practica requirement for my Islam class. More to come soon about Morocco! Right now all I can do is look at it in the dark!

... walked through Parc de la Ligue Arabe where I was accosted by a gypsy girl who kissed my sleeve - yuck!  So to make up for it, I bought some more french pastries.  Will miss that part of Morocco.   We found the Hotel Lincoln on Mohammed V Boulevard, but it was in a terrible state and half hidden due to reconstruction. We walked back to our hotel in a sandstorm, which ...

... and cart just sitting there along the Peugeots and Kias. (Oh, and gas is 1 Euro per litre-I don't remember if I mentioned it was about $6 a gallon in Italy and Greece). There are some Berbers who get educations and live in the general community, however. In a way they are also like Oak Cliff residents, too, come to think of it. They are darker skinned than what Mariam called "normal." Their language is an oral one, and in 2006 the king started a project to ...

... third largest mosque in the world, but apparently contains enough room inside of it to fit the largest cathedral in the world, St. Peter's Basilica of Rome.  The mosque also contains some nifty features, being a very modern day mosque, which include a basement Hamam (Turkish bath) that has never been used, a Royal area that has a glass floor that looks down to the ocean below (the mosque was built over the ocean due to a passage in the Koran that says ...

... fitted with metres would be more helpful.......even World Heritage status couldn't save it. The square still retains an atmospher but where once your feet would dislodge stones that the king's great, great, great, great grandfather could conceavibly stood on.....now they smack rather boringly onto machine cut paving stones......not very romantic and not very well done.....you can now buy prawn sandwiches at football grounds and the DeF is paved...is it really progress?

... in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto ...

... not to miss out on a word from their well paid guides. We too paid the exorbitant entrance fee and pretty much missed most of our guides recital for constantly trailing behind trying to capture our priveledged viewing on film. It was worth it... and lets face it, nothing we can´t look up on good ol´ wikipedia! In addition to the jaw dropping architecture of the mosque interior, we were also taken to view underneath the ...