Riad Inna Essaouira
30,36 Rue Med Benabdellah Essaouira, Morocco
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Clementines for a smile
... a coffee. As I sat enjoying my coffee a little boy came up to me asking for a clementine. Up to this point in my trip, I had become quite accustomed to being asked for money by the little children in the street, but never chose to encourage a child to become a beggar so I had always resisted the sad faces off the children. But this time all the kid wanted was a clementine. Considering I had paid about $0.50 for 15 clementines, I had not problem providing the kid ...
Essaouira and cold weather
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On Friday we were on a bus to the coast to visit Essaouiria, a coastal fishing village most visitors rave about. Three hours after leaving Marrakech we were standing in the port city with a stout little woman named Eishao, who would take us to our new riad, as arranged by our driver last weekend, Aziz. Eishao, who in all physical appearances could have been perfectly cast as a witch in any movie production, didn't speak a speck of English or French or any Arabic ...
Spice of the Desert ... Sand!
... Lucy got a soccer ball… It was so much fun – and not having to barter was a relief. In the end we spent quite a few dirhams, but it was worth it.
After spending nearly an hour in the store, Issam finally said “Yella, Yella” (Let’s go, Let’s go…) and we reluctantly left. About 10 minutes later we got our first real view of the ocean. It was a deep blue – like the Mediterranean. It was stunningly ...
Time to leave that comfort Zone
... Spain).
After 2 days we got the train to Essouria which is a coastal town, touristy but much nicer, cleaner and yet more real than Marrakesh. Havent done much more than a cooking class, eat lots of lovely food, buy some souveneirs with lots of haggling and drink lots of mint tea.
Today we head for a surf camp two hours south of here for one week. Then fly into Egypt for our final 2 weeks of ...
Day 3
... so we head off to the looooong and at this time of day empty beach.
We drive onto the beach and just park up in the middle of the vast stretch of sand. the liberty of things here feels so good. Jay goes for a long run while i amuse myself with my camera in the sand dunes. I get lucky and see some wild Camels in the distance. I have to sneak up to them as they are very shy. Using my camera screen as a periscope i catch a few shots. Once my ...



