Pension La Castellana
Travel Blogs from Chefchaouen
Casa - Tangiers - Chefchaouen
We arrived early in the morning at the train station of Tangier, the night on the sleeper train wasen't really a night with much sleep, but at least we had some rest.... Anyway we still had 4 hours to kill before departure to the blue city of Chefchaouen. So we wondered around in the kasbah of Tangier, it is still for me the less pleasant city of …
Scared stiff
There was an older blonde lady who must have been in her sixties or so that I'd just noticed was being approached by security personnel. The woman had one very swollen leg in a large bandage and seemed to be trying to sleep against the metal chair with only her shawl thrown over her. To their credit the security guys seemed very concerned …
A lazy day
Today was relaxing but rather uneventful in terms of the last few days. I lazily awoke, chatted to either the residence owner's wife or the maid (It’s awful but I can’t tell who she is!) and headed for an internet café to figure out how to get to Moulay Idriss when I leave here.
I actually think that I may be stuck here. It …
Bus Blues
I was awoken by the strange and unfamiliar sound of rain this morning. It was pattering down outside when I woke up and the sky was a scary shade of grey.
I decided that I was definitely leaving Chefchaouen this morning. I had all my things packed up and I was about to head out and get breakfast and go to the bus station when I spoke to …
Mabel and Troops make it to Morocco
... drizzle set in. Reality hit home as we set up camp in the rain, examined the basic bathroom with cruddy loos and cold showers and waited while the cook group struggled on to prepare dinner. Tensions between certain elements were already rising as the adrenaline and thrill of finally being on the road wore off and people dropped their polite facade. Stage two of Team formation ....Storming....had begun. Better sooner rather than later so we can move on...
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