Hotel Rivoli Casablanca

... 8230; imagine you are walking downtown and you see someone with a Subway sub and you just grab it and rip off a hunk and keep walking and then you see someone with a DP and grab it and take a sip. It was hilarious. Some of the little shops would just have huge lambs hanging and they would chop it up right there in front of you.  then there was one with just a bunch of live chickens and I saw the guy put one on the scale for someone....apparently they chop the head off ...

... 3,000 kids (at 7 different locations) and the teachers are paid very well (about 300 dirhams/$37 an hour). At this school, students are taught English at age 6, along with French, Arabic and Spanish. The President (Mehdi Hefiri) of the school met with us and gave us info via a translater. I attached a two-minute podcast of him speaking in French and the translations about the students ...

... 8 people) arranged by one of our Cruise Critic people. Visiting the city that lent its name to the famous film. Casablanca, the largest City in Morocco, is a city full of interesting sights. Our guide was Jamal and he was AMAZING! I were a little leery about Morocco but LOVED our experience, especially the Camel ride in Tangier! Jamal can tailor the tour to your wants. His email: jamaltour1@gmail.com email Jamal with any questions. Medina literally means "city", now ...

... also see a bread baking room where people bring there dough to be baked. It smelled amazing in the bread room. Our last stop was a cooking shop where I sampled many cookies that were delicious. However I felt icky afterwards from all the sugar but it was worth it. J We took easy on the ship late night to avoid being hassled by the Moroccan men if we would have gone out. I sat around and chatted with NKoyo and Ashley which was really interesting and fun ...

... but that didn't stop my Dad and I from attempting to hike up a 300 meter sand dune to watch the sun rise. Dad made it higher than me (a tad embarrassing, but I'll get over it), and I got some amazing photos of him on top of the dune. We ate a simple breakfast of bread, jam, cheese, and warmed milk, and headed back to the edge of the dunes to start our journey back. On the way back, after spending another night (this time quiet) in Ouarzazette we stopped to see some ...

... so we decided not to go in!We then continued to walk through the Medina and found the market! It was Saturday and the market area was massive, spreading from the Medina to the streets surrounding it on the Southern side for several blocks. We encountered market after market; it seemed like there were many smaller markets which, due to location, were all connected together. For example, you could explore a few streets find the fresh food, clothing, other goods, then within a few ...

... os nossos caminhos se cruzassem ». « Então obrigado a Allah e obrigado por seres um veiculo terrestre da bondade que ele te inspira ». 4 beijinhos e até breve. Caminhei, caminhei, caminhei, ia pensando em voz alta no caminho, o mais estranho é que a lingua na qual me ocorreu falar comigo proprio foi o inglês, que nem era uma lingua que tivesse utilizado nos ultimos tempos. Estava completamente absorto com os meus botões e divertido ao ver as pessoas olhando ...

... unmade and finally the second room was ok! This all took about 45 mins... phew - was glad to get the backpack off! I settled in and met one of the other girls on the trip and then set off on a long walk. I managed to find the old police headquarters and the law courts - checking out the fountain opposite - lots of kids and pigeons! I walked the short distance to the nearly Cathedral du Sacre Coeur - an old ...

... I'm finding it hard to write about Morocco and the things that we've done because we haven't done anything super exciting. And all I want to talk about is the landscape because its so incredible. Some parts are more boring than I 80 in pennselvania. But there's areas where we drove through apple and orange and olive tree groves and there's fields and fields of wild red poppies that stand out against the green grass. We even traveled through what looked ...

... to the big mosque here we met some of the group tonight they ar a bit strange we agreed if we dont like it we will go on our own aftr a few days Casablanca is, as the books all said, a **** hole although ricks cafe (not the real one) was gorgeous keyboards are funny here!!!! Meetin up with the group tonight, then going to the Hassan II mosque tomorrow -