Le Pietri Hotel Rabat

December 14 thru December 27

Route traveled Detroit-Chicago-London-Malaga Spain-Mellila Spain-Fes Morocco Marrakech Morocco Tan Tan Morocco Laayoune Morocco Dahkmar morocco Laayuone morocco rabat morocco All of the places I list are places that I have slept in

Of course not the ones from my airplane journey tho


Status Rabat, Morocco jzafricajourney

For a native Washingtonian the humidity in Rabat is nearly unbearable. You know it's bad when you wake up drenched in the middle of the night and are still cold then look outside and everything is covered in water yet there has been no rain. That is some serious humidity. Even funnier is that it isn’t even that hot out maybe 30 degrees Cel...

It seems that I am writing a novel instead of a blog. Not the good kind of sweeping epic. More of a ponderous drugstore mystery. I guess even those have some appeal if it is only the satisfaction of reading a book you have to hide from polite society:

Apparently the largest demographic of people reading my blog are from England. This mea...

Ever since I had arrived in Spain I knew I wanted to travel to Morocco. Being only 14km across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain, it was hard to resist being able to travel to Africa so easily. Thus when I arrived in Madrid and saw that my school was organizing a trip to Morocco, I knew I couldn't pass it up.
Unfortunately, though I had ju...

SATURDAY:

Kelsey and I finally forced our selves out the door at 11am-ish. We knew what we wanted from the day. We both wanted to do some shopping and we thought I should see Oudaia. As far as I know it was an old fortress and now makes more money and is less under attack. Well, depending on what you consider attack. Tourists might be wor...

Hola, as they never say here in Morocco:

Some updates:


-As far into the future I can see, there won't be very many pictures. Sorry.


-I never do anything, so you can look forward to anecdotes instead of travels. Sorry again.


-Where I live will, from here on out, be known as the Bayt. I think it has a ...

Sorry, no pictures again. All of them turned out pink. I'll have time to fix them tonight. Look for them in tomorrow's post.


Well, after whining to everyone at Qalam wa Lawh that no one wants to do anything, I gave up on gently hinting that they could do things with me. I asked Zineb if I could go out alone as mentioned in the previ...

Today, I woke up feeling like today could be good. I thought maybe I'd earned my stripes yesterday and today will run like clockwork.

The rest of the day turned out fine, but the morning reduced me to tears (which if you know me, you know that I cry all the time and about nothing).

I got down to the courtyard in my typical fashion....

I've been in Rabat for a week now, a thriving City of history, religion, sultans, commerce, and 98.7 % friendly liberal muslims, who still like the donkeys to lead and the women to follow behind. Morocco competes with Albania for the title of the US’s closest Muslim ally.

Rabat's history began in the 3rd century BC with a permanent...

The last couple of days have been pretty relaxing, relatively speaking. After work yesterday, I took a nap (exciting stuff so far, right?). I never normally do that, but was so wiped out, I just had to. It was roasting hot at the hospital and that combined with my cold just drained every bit of energy. The nap worked, and fingers crossed, I am o...