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Clementines for a smile
... and he looked up at me with a smile, took it out of my hand and said shokran.
Back at the hostel, Ahmagi and Tonyi were still lounging around having just had some lunch. I dropped off my clementines, and we decided to head to the beach to sit at a little cafe. The walk from the hostel to the beach is typically about a thirty minute walk - going at the pace of people without a care in the world. Today the sun was shining bright without a cloud in the ...
Essaouira and cold weather
... standard time for breakfast. If we asked to have breakfast at eight, she would interpret it as ‘okay, you want dinner tonight at eight’. Our only recourse was to call Aziz and have him communicate to her in Berber. We had to do that repeatedly. She was an excellent cook and worked constantly to keep the place clean. She barked to us in a soprano voice something in Berber and acted like we knew perfectly what she was talking about. You could be in the middle of a ...
Spice of the Desert ... Sand!
... carried out picnic lunch out into the sand. Andrea felt this was our best meal yet – even with a little bit of fine sand blown into everything. The avocado we ate was perfectly ripe. The cheeses were all fantastic and the olives… Well you get the idea! The soccer ball got broken in – mostly by Lucy and Issam – though Jeff and Morganne did kick it around some as well. I was happy to just sit in the sand and enjoy the surroundings. It ...
Aid el Kebir
My dear friends, in my head I have been writing many blog entries lately, but the computer issue and a big holiday have kept me from proceeding into reality. Anyway, I want to tell you more about the interesting holiday of Aid el Kebir: it is a Muslim holiday that relates to the story of Abraham having to sacrifice his own son because God had asked him to in order to test his faith. In the end, a sheep and not the son serve as the sacrifice. ...
Day 3
... up in full view they run off!
Back to the Jeep and Jay decides for a freestyle drive on the beach and he gets on the back driven by myself. Its great fun and we get into soft sand. I switch to 4x4 and try to get the hang of it all again as i havent done any 4x4 driving since my Army days about 8 years ago. Its Jays turn to drive and i get on the back for a mad roller-coast of a ride. I do plenty of filming and he takes me right till the main ...


