Riad Dar Afram Essaouira

... then sat and Mohammad cooked for us a tradition Morrocan feast, we had soup again for starters with lentals and chick peas in it then he brought out some salad of tomatoes and peppers covered in olive oil and lemon, some bread and a big tagine of beef with olives and peas and green beans it was an amazing meal and both Ian and I stuffed our faces full. We are off tomorrow to fez on the train and it takes 7 hours so we need to get some rest.

Ah Essaouira - a most idyllic seaside town along the Atlantic coast, about 3 hrs. southwest of Marrakech, and a fine spot to wind down after my many adventures across Morocco. (it's also a prime example of the Moroccans apparent fetish for vowels) ;)<br><br> Such a lovely time I've had here - more than 3 days to meander along the waterfront with nothing more pressing to do than sample freshly squeezed O.J. from a seaside ...

... did know them there after all. Anyway, the food in there was good &#8211; another tagine for me!!<br><br>We go back to the riad and say our goodbyes to Alex as she has to be up at 6 in the morning to catch her flight and our flight is not until tomorrow night. We&#8217;ve had great fun together, it really has been excellent. Alex has similar interests to us and likes to travel and experience things in the same way as us, so it has worked out perfectly. Bon voyage Alex.<br><br><br><br>

Essaouira is a city on the coast of Morocco that is a bit of a hippy hangout. Jimi Hendrix allegedly lived here briefly. It is a nice, relaxed place, fortified by the Portugese and sporting some impressive ramparts. The gulls here are very noisy and squawk all night.<br><br>My time here was relatively uneventful with my group - if I have one complaint about them, it's that they shop too much! Since I was on a strict budget, I couldn't really buy a lot. And I ...

... A popular old Russian song by Alla Pugachova, the light suddenly went down low for a couple of seconds and the show was over... It looked like synthesizer of a band member was burnt by electricity failure=( It was so pity...<br><br>So, as far as we ended our drinks, we went back through the night city, which looked wonderful at night... Then again we spent some time by the pool with some wine=)<br>

... lovely room in Moroccan style. I felt like I'd never want to leave again. My first stop was Il Mare. A restaurant right behind the city walls but high enough to look over them. Ten days before Christmas, I was sitting outside on the roof terrace, enjoying a good lunch with a view of the ocean. It was blue skies all over and just pleasant. Was it really 3 days since I was walking through the snow...

Well it was a bit of a struggle this morning -- the first one in quite a while! I still made it downstairs just after 9 and found that half the group were down there too. After brekky I did a bit of hand washing then headed out to do a few jobs - first the internet then shopping! I walked past a blanket place and checked out a few pillow case covers before deciding on 2 orange stripey ones. I also ...

... difficult to continue walking, because they would come chasing down the street after me, grabbing my arm and trying to pull me back. It gets really tiring to refuse this all the time and on one occasion I ended up in a shop, with a man trying to sell me jewelry, which isn't a difficult situation to get out of, so I stood up to leave telling him I didn't like anything and it was all too expensive. He grabbed my arm, wouldn't let go, asked me "do I like ...

... at Chez Sams, and althought the place looked promising, we both found the seafood there mediocre. I should add that after some decent research on finding a great hotel to stay we were taken to our hotel in which was in a old decaying building. Tiles were missing or broken, the stairs and walls were filthy. I was very nervous that somehow we chose a bad place. Once the door inside the building was opened we were pleasantly surprised.

... me. At 100km/h, this can have a cooling effect, but the problem is that it is only reaching the chest. The solution to getting an all round cooling effect is going through a series of Madonna-esque Vogue poses. Le Tigre is a good one for cooling the back - With left hand pointing forward on my handlebars, and arching my back forward, the air flowing to my chest and through my sleeve can now freely flow across my inner contours, and the 2 streams actually congregate on the left side ...