Riad Yacout
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Fez - Being Born
Unfortunately, our second Moroccan train experience wasn't as good as the first and when the train arrived about fifteen minutes late it was already crammed. By the time we’d boarded, it seemed to be standing room only and so we stood in the rather warm corridor with all of our bags wondering just how this was going to work for four hours? …
Fes
... amazing. A 32 year old man named Hassan was our couch surf contact for Fes. He lives with his Papa Mousa, his Mama Aziza, his twin brother Houseen, and oldest brother Mohamed, And his two younger sisters, Dreams (I didn't write her name down, but I know it means dreams in Arabic) and Zenib. Zenib is the youngest and she is 14. Hassan speaks the best English, but often times when he wasn't home we would try and get Zenib to translate. She is a very bright little girl. Over the time ...
Prayer day in Fes
... and at least you could focus on the actual buildings
and doors etc... instead of being distracted by all the products for
sale in the shops.
It
seems that some of the group (Ben, Denise, Maria, Brian and Stef)
have been playing cricket today! Perhaps I should have stayed and
been less energetic!
...
Camel for dinner?
... With a much larger area occupied by both concrete vats, drying areas, dying vats and leather prep sheds, it was a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately it isn’t possible to get down among the tanning pits themselves and I was seeing the area at 5pm, when sunlight was no longer overhead and giving the tanneries a dull shadow. Most of the workers had obviously left, since many start at 4am in the morning. My guide in Marrakech had given me a ...
Meet the scammers
After breakfast we leave Dar Bennani and fend off the cabbie who has lodged his car into the 10 foot wide space of Sidi. Bryony has decided we don't like this guy as he has got out of his car to chase us down the street. Emerging from the Medina we immediately find another cabbie who accepted our offer of 20 dirhams to the train station. At the station I approached the ticket office to see if it is possible to upgrade our tickets to Fez to First Class. ...