Hotel Residence Nejma Agadir

The Capitol of Morocco bounced between Rabat, Fez, Marrakesh and Meknes over the centuries, each new Sultan making his selection as best suited his defensive strategy, political organization and entertainment agenda.

Rabat was Morocco's capitol in the 16th century, but was destroyed by the Portuguese for bad manners. It was selected agai...

Driving into Rabat along the coast line was one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen. Giant swells crashing against the cliff sides reminded me of what people imagined hundreds of years ago as the end of the earth. 20 km's of mind blowing grandeur lined the road to our campsite. One would assume such a site would be followed by a nice li...

Highlight of the day, me acting like a heroine. Low point of the day, the fact that I had to be a heroine. It’s actually less heroic than it sounds and it has to do with pomegranates. We’ll get back to that later.

High point, I shaved my legs. Low point, being blind, in an upright shower, with a new razor. I look like I victi...

Sorry, I must put a title on each of my blogs and the jerk-ish thing says, "C'mon, you can think of something clever."

Diary entry for today:

Stuart wasn’t here today so I had two hours of one-on-one time with the teacher (I MUST LEARN HER NAME- on the to-do list). It’s like Chinese water torture. I would like to thin...

Salaam,
Well, today is the day. There are only two of us lonely volunteers left at home base, and we're leaving on this afternoon's flight out of Rabat, inshallah. (inshallah is my favorite word that I've learned here and I plan to bring it home with me :-) ) It's so strange being in the house as the staff is preparing for their next group of...

Our plane landed in the airport of Agadir and after a short stop to fill the immigration cards we moved to the exit. There the bus was waiting and when all the people got in it we started to move to our destination - LTI Agadir Beach Club Hotel 4*. The Night city is awesome and after 30 minutes we're in the hotel. The hotel officials took us to ...

Well what can I say except another glorious day in the sunshine. Woke at 6.30, breakfast, dismantled camp and hit the road for 8. Team hardcore, Sarah and Martin are gathering recruits and now they, Jamie and NZ Mike leave camp early to run until the truck catches up with them. A lower impact team also started walking this morning, rising with c...

Second time's a charm. The train drops me off right in the center of Rabat and from there I easily find a nice inexpensive hotel, no WiFi or anything fancy like that, but back then it was a novelty and I was hardly addicted to it. What I DO have are about a 100 CD’s I picked up from the WOMEX conference, which are extremely heavy, so I set...

Our entry to Essouira was heralded by a rousig chorus of "Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside!" We have proved ourselves to be something of a musical group - berber dancing, drumming on tables and undoubtably here we will continue our less-then-melodic-but-utterly-enthusias tic-efforts at entertaining ourselves... and the rest of whichever re...

Sunday 7th November To begin with, I am a single traveller so things get a bit dull at times; I try to make up for the lack of excitement by exploring as much as possible and blending in with the locals wherever possible. Up at about 2:30am, what a pain. Taxi arrived at 3:05 am. Only got about 3 hours sleep. Tried using the cash machine at the a...