Ibis Moussafir Casablanca City Center

... t allowed to bring it on the ship because it might get critters? I don’t know exactly, but it’s probably for the better if living things can develop. I know this is so long and it seriously doesn’t describe at all the experiences we had in these shops and all the funny things that happened.

  Don Fez then took us to an expensive restaurant that he claimed was one of the only ones opened because of Ramadan, which may be true, but at the same time ...

... That makes me a little uneasy, but I'm getting used to it. Today at lunch I wanted some bottled water, so I reached for it to pour into my own glass. The waiter took it from me and did it himself. Maybe that is just customary here or I'm not used to "fine dining" or maybe I'm just too darn independent. I guess I was raised to think if I'm thirsty or need something, I should get it myself. :)

... Our breakfast was again delicious, although a little hurried because we had a bus to catch at 09:15.Interestingly the bus loading procedure this time around was a little different; there seemed to be a bit of a mix of allocated seating and not. We were fortunate to have a couple of English speakers who were happy to trade seats with us as we were boarded and in position several minutes prior to them.The trip back to Marrakech is along the same ...

We were indeed up EARLY with a capital E and ate quickly in our room. We proceeded to the lounge to wait for our tour departure. Unfortunately, the departure was somewhat delayed as they had to wait a while for clearance for the passengers to disembark and even when we left, only those passengers on our tour had yet been cleared apparently. We boarded our bus (very similar to the ones we took to the Alhambra, but with a strange smell) and were off quickly ...

... du Maroc but he didn't have the 50 Euros that i needed for the local payment for my trip. I was pointed in another direction so i walked down the street and went into another bank that said 'Change'. Still i was wrong but this time the employee directed me to the security man so he could take me to the right place. It ended up being the small shopkeeper who sold the chocolates and ...

... star. In the morning adam and I woke up to two cats fighting (mating actually, its a horrible sight and sound) and some of our group had slept outside of the tents, and we were just waiting for these cats to start fighting on top of someone. And they did!! They woke this guy chad up and he screamed so loud! And he said that he's never been so scared in his life! Its a pretty horrible way to wake up. Especially in the middle of the dessert when youre ...

... a carpenter, a nursery school teaching both French and Arabic and male and female washrooms (where our man informed me you could get a massage for a meer 5 Euro!). We had dinner waiting for us at our riad of delicious salads, beef, potato and bean tagine and pudding of sugared, cinnamoned oranges and syrup cake. Delcious! Our riad is lovely - the courtyard is particularly lovely with trailing vines and a banana tree sporting three bunches of small green bananas!