Hotel Touring Casablanca

Erin and I are touring Spain, Portugal, and Morocco for 4 months. There will be port, crazy architecture, horseriding, trainhotels (how do you fit a hotel on a train?), camels, a town called El Keba, catching up with family and no doubt a lot else. Oh ...

... city by far, containing over three million people compared to the second biggest city, Marrakech, which has around 850,000.  Casablanca is considered Morocco's commercial capital, and a major fishing port which became very apparent upon our arrival.   ...

... baked loaves, which was as delicious as most of the bread that I've eaten here. After checking into our hotel, we spent the afternoon touring Casablanca.  With a population of 6 million it is the largest city in Morocco and is the financial center ...

... here and there by ruins of buildings from the 1700's. We had lunch and a cold drink in the restaurant of a lovely hotel called Casablanca, on the corner of a market square area similar to those in Mexican towns. Flowers and other hanging plants grew from ...

... of the World's Largest Flea Markets) we tried to locate the Hassan II Mosque.  We found it, but not before touring the ghetto of Casablanca.  Ironic that the Mosque which cost $750 Million to build, is right next to one of the poorest neighborhoods in ...

... of a time trying to figure out where and how to get to wherever my father was).  Dad and I spent 2 days in Casablanca, touring around, and sightseeing. We spent some time at the biggest mosque in Africa and met a nice German couple who we spent ...

... and tourists in Muslim countries? Because I am on this crazy voyage called Semester at Sea. Currently I am writing you from Casablanca, Morocco. Although I have not even completed my blog posting for Spain, I need to get my thoughts down about Morocco ...

... , had a good time with several of my tour mates and visited some absolutely awesome sights including the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca... the third largest in the world. An amazing sight and so different to the temples I've seen in Thailand and the ...

... been bumped from her connecting flight from Paris, and was therefore forced to catch another flight that would't arrive in Casablanca until about 5:30. Fortunately, through a minor miracle of modern technology, Leo was able to get word of her ...

... Visa application, so maybe when I get home there'll be a letter from the US Embassy next to my letter from the Casablanca police.  Sigh.  Anyway, we eventually were able to rejoin the larger group and had our usual raucous time--I'm only mostly ...

And so the tour begins! We left Casablanca by train at noon; Shannon and Arlene were both so jet-lagged (their flight didn't arrive until 1 am) that they slept much of the way. Jon, as a surgeon, is so used to surviving on a couple of hours of sleep a ...

... was a screen for movies being projected onto it. As dusk proceeded the images became clearer and we immediately recognized Casablanca playing. Now dinner was even more memorable as the food was cooked to creative perfection. Keith had scallops first ...

... ;but the personalized tour of the wine making process (we were there the day Aquitania was processing its Chardonnay grapes from the Casablanca Valley and stood next to the conveyers and press) vs. the quick tour of the MUCH larger Concha y Toro estate ...