Hotel des Palmiers Agadir

... I had when I was working with Surf Maroc, but I did even in the small town of Taghazout. The food, the people, the culture...it was all there for me immerse in. Yet it was good to experience it in a new way on the road, and to appreciate all I was given!


On August 20th I left magical Morocco for London, to visit with my dear friend Kim and her lovely husband, Nick. I also got ...

... to surf!  I'm completely in love with this new passion.  I relate it a lot to yoga:  here I am, asking Mother Ocean if I may join with with her and become the wave.  I'm quite addicted now to heading out to the water to play.  I'm improving which pleases me; I haven't tried to learn a new sport in awhile to get better at.  I'm hungry for it, the joy of standing up and floating; I can say there's nothing like ...

... in the lush Palm Bay and enjoy the sun, because it's always there to light up your day! The opportunities for play during your day are plentiful, including a variety of water sports! There's also a golf course and tennis court. If you're more into relaxing than getting active, or need to wind down after too much activity, sip a rejuvenating beverage in one of the six bars inside ...

... almost hot! So strange feelings, so cool... =) I am really in Love with the Ocean!

All red and tatooed, I returned to the hotel to eat something, and then we went to the hall to see the Morroccan show - there was a wedding as a show... But not such interesting, so soon we left to spend some time near the pool, all our group, sip some wine and talk=)

Tired after such a lot of sun, I soon left for bed.

... Green. Has the only real SPA in all Agadir. Has grand conference rooms. Has lots of restaurants, cafe's, Facilities. Really Impressed. Rooms are ok though, nothing unusual, just good. Here we stayed for a free lunch, which was great, Yummy=)))

Lunch is over, time to work again.

Adrar Agadir 3* - Awful pool, rooms are good.

Argana 4* - Pool is simple, rooms are okay. But the view from the window is awful. Though the hotel ...

... the port. Wow! I haven't something more powerful than this... I remember this smell in my nightmares :-D But all in all, it was interesting=)

We returned to the hotel and after a short time were ready to begin our work - to watch hotels. Our group was a mix of tour agents from different russian cities who gathered in Morocco for one purpose - to work. We had to collect information first-hand about hotels in Morocco so we may send our clients ...

... village with not much more than a few dogs roaming the streets. This whole trip already sounded more like an odyssey than anything else, until my luck changed for the better and a guy pulled out his car and drove me back to the doorstep of my hotel, this time the right one, and he didn't even want any money. How sweet! So I had a plate of Couscous and dropped into bed, happy but quite exhausted.

... once bogged the term ***** would be used quite a lot. So here we all are riding Nahla through the Sahara Desert, a place where nothingness can be beautiful. We aim to get to camp today by 4 or 4.30. Much earlier than usual as we need to do a mass tidy up in readiness for the boarder crossing tomorrow. Booze has to be hidden and things be made to look generally neat and tidy in the hope they'll take one look, deem us to be respectable people and ...

... too high a tip. Had chicken salad, 4 pasta with different sauces, one chilli, one with prawns. Had ice cream for dessert but it was so cold my head hurt. Got another free fruit cocktail, paid the bill, gave a tip and said goodbye to the head waiter. Went back to hotel and set the alarm for 7am and went to bed at 9:25pm. Sunday 14th Up at 7:30am, got dressed and put last of the things for packing in the suitcase. Went down for breakfast but there was no sign of J & K ...