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... rainy, windy England!!), have been speaking French all day and brain not used to so much work since it's over five months since school finished, and need to eat. Starting to think back to al the 'luxuries' people get used to in England and other places and find it slightly crazy. Things like electrical toothbrushes, triple-layered, extra-soft and coloured toilet paper, fancy light switches, down ...

... expecting money, then got shown around taroudannt by son of man who owns the hotel. He took me to his jewellrey shop at the end qnd gave me his business card but don't see how he thought I would ever buy anything from there when am staying in 5euro a night hotel! This evening; I managed to get to internet place for first time (only 30p an hour!) but very slow at times and took me a while to figure out which keys to press for punctuation as doesn't correspond with ...

It is day six of my nine month journey and I am in Taroudant. It is the first time I have got onto the internet but have been keeping diary each day of what I have done. This blog is mainly to keep family and frinds informed of what I am up to but will also hopefully travellers who are planning to go where I I hav ...

We hit the big city of Agadir, it's a bit of a big hotel kinda of place. Big, sandy, crescent shaped beach which nobody was using at the time we were there. Eddie found a great room at a fantastic price, pool, restaurant, balcony all for 38 dollars a night. We found the towna bit quite, for example ...

... for some spectacular trekking. Climbed Jebel Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa, which was a real gem.


Marrakesh was a vibrant pace after small town life and I really enjoyed wandering the souks and Djemma el-Fna, making friends with locals while sharing tea and scrubbing away the old me at the hammam. I didn't realize how much of a true taste of Moroccan culture and ...

... Agadir, at this time of the year, is not exactly JFK. It was about the quietest airport I've seen in a long time, and so orderly, no touts, no mess. Nobody. A few tour buses were waiting for package tourists, and in the distance a few taxis. They must have known about the situation and were asking for quite a high price, 15 Euro to go into town and 30 Euro to my hotel a little north of ...

... como as centenas de outras que foram ceifadas nesse trajecto) e nem de primeira. Passou 7 anos a tentar chegar à Terra Prometida. Tem muita historia.(Inês haverias de gostar de lhe falar). E Bambara como o meu bom amigo Drissa em França e é incrivel as semelhanças que os dois têm na maneira de ser e de se exprimir, os gestos e as interjeições. Que figurinha caricata. Respeita muito as mulas que considera ser as verdadeiras rainhas da estrada. Teve uma ...

Got an awesome villa for cheap cheap and had a nice time relaxing in the sand. The food sucked in this town however. During this time we took some side trips to neighboring beaches and cities such as Sidi Ifni. Real tight. Spring break 08! WOO! We made it!

... saved at the last minute! Between Essaouira & Agadir, there's a special breed of goats that climb right to the top of olive trees for food & then stand up there looking really stupid! I've been trying really hard to put some more photos on here but unfortunately so far all the computers are **** (shock!) I'll keep giving it a go though, whenever I get the chance! Sorry. We're going to India in about 4 days now though so I'm going to have LOADS of catching up to do!

... Kim's house. We assembled yesterday and promptly decorated her house and baked cookies with the holiday cheer that my mom boxed up in multiple cartons and shipped to her son in Morocco. We hung garlands, Christmas tree ornaments (including the crocheted Santas that Mom made about 20 years ago for everybody in the pre-kindergarten class in which Carl and I were enrolled), stockings, a silly stufed snowman and even some Christmas lights, all while listening to the Christmas tunes of ...