Ksar Catalina Marrakech

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... station and it would cost us 60d there and back its only 6 quid but its the principle now of the matter lol. Got back and used the internet to now try and find a riad to stay but everywhere is so expensive did manage to email one so hopefully we will have somewhere to stay. <br><br>We then walked to try and see the sights of Marrakech after having a lunch in a street cafe Ian had some dust my word for couscous not sure what it is looks like dust from the ...

... waiting with my name on a card ha. The taxi drove us to the edge of the medina as you cant get in with cars then the owner of the hotel turned up and a man with a large cart took our bags and started off down lots of small streets making turns here and there I am sure that we are going to get lost. We did get to the Riad and Mohammad who looks after the place told us to take a seat so we sat and he went in the kitchen and made us some amazing food and hot coffee it was ...

... the different spices were, what they smelled like (&#8220;come, smell, there is no snakes hiding here&#8221;), what they were used for, etc. In addition to the rich tumerics and deep paprikas, the dried lavenders and the sweet mints &#8211; we also were shown sandalwoods, ambers and musks, used as natural perfumes &#8211; tiny bushels of toothpicks, grown in nature that way &#8211; and small pressed pots of pigments, where a wet finger run ...

... around on leashes &#8211; fruit stand owners yelling out invitations to passersby to try their freshly-squeezed juices and dried fruits &#8211; strolling musicians with tented, pom-pom hats &#8211; flipping acrobats &#8211; water sellers clanging copper mugs together &#8211; Arabic music blasting across the open space speakers located here and there &#8211; horse-drawn carriages and donkeys pulling carts of vegetables, winding in between everyone and everything - and ...

... stepping daintily around a dead chèvre (goat), we found the little sucker (a micro hidden in a cubby hole in a clay/straw wall) and... I do believe Wales now has a new geoaddict! ;D <br><br> That night (alas, my last in dear Morocco!), we headed for the legendary "Djemaa el Fna" Square for a sunset ...

... took a walk in the opposite direction, to the Menara Gardens, about 20 minutes walk from our hotel. These are free gardens, but not really what you'd expect for "gardens". Its mainly orchards and olive trees, with steps up to a ...

... so I can make so mint tea back at home, Morrocan style! - been hassled by a glue sniffing teenager wanting money, and who touched my ****! ewww... - walked through beautiful parks and buildings - visited the HEM school -been invited for the traditional Friday lunch of cous cous, where we were served cous cous on such a huge plate it was enough to feed a dinner party, and not just the two of us! once again...really beautiful food ...

... are pitiful to watch and we were strongly discouraged to pay them no attention. Everyone visiting the square needs a pocketful of small change to fend off the entertainers. And what would a trip to Marrakech be without spending a few hours in the souqs? We dawdled away a lot of time there, getting lost in the labyrinth of streets and haggling for Moroccan souvenirs: leather slippers and bags, lamps, striped silk scarves and bedspreads ...