Riad Alech Essaouira

... gifts for people in the Souk its just really hard saw loads of things for people but try and haggle is annoying I just want to pay a price and it seems silly haggling for like 7 quid nearly bought you a bag Alex but the man was doing my head in so will have to try and find you something else ha ha.<br><br>Had some more mint tea in the square and then back to the Riad as Ian is going to the Hamam this is a place where all the locals go ...

... alleyways of Essaouria. <br><br> - Though I normally minimize my time w/ fellow travelers (preferring instead to - why rub shoulders w/ the locals of course!), one evening I opted to sip a beer atop a seaside "tourist" restaurant balcony whilst enjoying a spectacular Moroccan sunset and... There I met a delightful couple from London, along w/ a lad from northern England. Blessedly, our chatter avoided the usual ...

... everyone, collect our luggage from the riad and walk to the bus stop.<br><br>We arrive back in Marrakech around 10pm &#8211; and are greeted by the usual crowd hassling you to offer you taxi services. We could barely get off the bus for people thrusting things at us and shouting for our attention. John is trying to get our bag and he engages in conversation with one of the taxi drivers, for some reason one of the other taxi drivers seems to think that John is his cusomter and ...

... friend, which we all have a good laugh about.<br><br>It&#8217;s actually a lot cooler by the coast &#8211; it&#8217;s quite windy here, so we go shopping to get something a bit warmer to wear tonight. By the time we&#8217;ve done that, we go back to the riad, get changed and go out again.<br><br>We go to the restaurant where we are greeted by the head of the family and are told "please come in and sit down, you are very, very welcome". The whole family is in ...

... two hours. When we arrived, it was such beautiful! We walked to the defensive fortress built right on the cliffs, there are many cannons which looks ahead on the ocean. The waves are crushing on the cliffs under the fortress... And the wind of course! It knocks you down as if you were a puppet... Incredible feelings... Then we went to the deep part of the fortress, to the town itself. We visited ...

... of Arabia, and lots of people would travel back home to their families, so they put an old rattling bus back on the road and it came just at the right time. There was one seat left and it was next to a middle aged woman in a long dress so I wasn't too sure if it would be ok for me to sit there or would I get thrown out of the bus after only 50 meters, but I guess I was tolerable to the community ...

... All would have prepared us for the hustle, bustle and in-your-face style which is doing business in Marrakech. This flip side of course is after Marrakech, we are finding Essouria a very relaxing place; and we may have thought the rest of Morocco was like this!We eventually settled for dinner at a small restaurant recommended by our Ryad; Petit le Perle. Dinner comprised of a hot Moroccan salad, a vegetable cous-cous, a vegetable Tagine and a yogurt for desert. Appetisers ...

hiya, am in essaouira on the beach and have just bought lovely green shoes. yesterday we spent the night at a gite in the high atlas and it was freezing. the trek up was difficult because of the ice and everyone was very good and took it in turns to hold my hands when i ...

... we could see the city sprawled out below. Normally about 80,000 inhabitants. Most of the buildings are in a walled in Medina, the city also has two ports, and a crescent shaped beach. Currently the city is busier than normal with all preparing for the music festival to start tomorrow. this week the city is expecting 400,000 guests. It's the busiest time of year for them. Luckily Adam and I are here for the first day tomorrow ...

... were minging, but left the place clean, scrubbed and ready to be welcomed back into the fold of humanity once again. Pretty uneventful rest of the day - bumbled around the square, went to a lake pavilion set in a massive grove of olive trees, then came back for dinner in the square. Marrakesh is truly magnificent, and a city which is now justifiably a weekend destination for European travellers. It was fun riding 4,300 km to get here, but I'd happily pay 17.99 GBP plus all ...