Ibis Moussafir Fnideq

Our first night was spent in Spain at a very nice campsite with Wi-Fi and hot showers, though the western toilets were void of toilet seats. The night was spent drinking loads of red wine and discovering everyone's names and backgrounds. We have 24 people total on the trip, six girls and 18 guys. Ages range from 22 to 60 and there are quite a variety of nationalities, though I am the only American. People are from the UK, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Japan and ...

MERCREDI 6 MAI 2009 vers CHEFCHAOUEN arrivee a oued laou banque populaire, caisse d epargne,, Dorades, tomates et aubergines. JEUDI 7 MAI 2009 CHEFCHAOUEN on part pour chefchaouen.....routes montagnes...petit village a cote de chefchaouen, salade, tomates et sardines grillees viande pourrie, aubergine, the a la menthe...decouverte de chefchaouen et des vendeurs de ****...

... water. Some of the boys went all the way to the cliff at the bottom. I wasn't wearing the right shoes. Maybe next time, right? After that quick stop we went a little further down the road to ride camels. Yes, I rode a camel. It was scary. It lasted about 2 minutes but that was all I needed. They smell bad, their tongues hang out of their mouths and look like organs, and they are not nice. It was an experience but it was worth it and now I can say I've ridden a camel. Conveniently, the ...

... in one of the shops though. They were super nice and the guy was gay for sure! and cute! haha We chatted for a while and then we said our goodbyes as we headed back to our meeting point to go back to our hotel in Tetuán. We ended up seeing the Canadians about 6 times in the market. I kept getting suggestive glances from the guy. haha. Nothing wrong with a little flirtation I suppose. We got back to our meeting point and met Michael Douglas ...

... Snob, Palma Beach and Soleil Rouge and there was even a restaurant named after Celine Dion. We saw some advertising for a Pizza Hut Ramadan pizza deal, they will cash in on anyhing hey! We dodged the stalker blokes trying to sell us hash or just trying to walk with us. This was done by crossing to the opposite side of the road to where they were then crossing back when they crossed until they go the message that we were playing the game so they would ...

... Ramadan ends in one month there is a festival called Aid-al-Fitr that lasts for five days and basically involves everybody ending the famine by feasting on alcohol and previously forbidden foods, cant be good for the system. All of Morocco grinds to a halt at this time and we want to be out before this occurs. But, does all this Holy week business mean we will not be seeing any bellydancers on show? After the sunset happens and the daily fast is broken ...

... man walking the camel was more than happy to ask us for 'more money please' to everyone at the end of it, sneaky little *******! - a great tour through the markets in which an 80 euro item quickly became a 6 euro item - a handcraft market that we had pretty much the entire store of rugs laid on the ground in front of us and were told 'two choices... either buy a rug or leave your girl and I ...

... drenched in honey and a very sweet mint tea--kind of like a Mojito, but no rum, just tea. Afterwards, we walked through a little park and these children came out of nowhere--they were a little make-shift marching band! After their song, the flipped over their tambourine and started begging heavily for money. I asked Joe to throw them a 5 cent piece, and when it landed in the kids hand, he looked and groaned loudly ...

well, i am having a hard time catching up after being away from internet access for over a week and now being limited to a very confusing arabic keyboard with no english characters...it is all hit or miss. While i probably wont get to Morocco in this entry, you can safely make the assumption that we arrived and are now melting in the heat of Fes. and to ,ake a disclai,er, please convert all ,isplaced commas to an M. i a, really struggling with the location ...

Tetouan, old capital of the Spanish Protectorate until 1952. One of those cities with Tangiers where people respond in Spanish , when addressed in french or the other way around ! Allegelly a UNESCO World Heritage Site, reason why fanatic Yasmin dragged poor Mikie here. There might be countless treasures of architecture in Tetouan, but none of them are visible to the passerby. As always in Morocco, Mosks are off ...