We were up and dressed ready to meet Anthony for half nine. We found a decent café to have juice and a pastry for breakfast and we also bought bread for dinner later. I quickly nipped next door to an internet café to ring dad about interviews. It looks like its mixed news; I have two interviews, but the dates are before our flight home. The main aim of today was to get away from the city and see a nice pretty town with a few sights and add a few more names to our places we have visited list. We [View Full Entry]

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Having a bed that wasn't entirely hard meant that we could actually have a sleep in. Even when we woke up we chatted and lounged around for a bit. When we did get up we noticed that the sun was shining which hasn't happened for a while. The central market seemed like a good idea for picnic stuffs initially, but we blatantly forgot that we were in the middle of Morocco. We strode into the market place and then just as quickly as it took our eyes to adjust to the light, we strode right back out again. Saying that my [View Full Entry]

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Our plans to rise early to escape Meknes were thwarted by sheer laziness on our behalf. However due to our recent bouts of illness we are blaming it entirely on a lack of energy. When we did leave the hotel, it took some doing to get us both with our backpacks to the top of the hill. The train station was comfortingly European and the French language announcements were almost completely understood. The train was delayed but we didn't mind one iota as the sun was shining and we got to watch a nosy rabble of football fans arrive on the [View Full Entry]

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Today we both felt better and well enough to look around Meknes. Neither of us particularly likes the place so we want to see it so that we can leave. We began our sightseeing in the main square which was previously the only part we had managed to see. We dodged the café owners and dived into the covered market for a loo, around. The first row we went down was just packed full of stalls which sold the little pastries which look ever so colourful. We walked down amazed at the hundreds of different varieties and the hoards of wasps. [View Full Entry]

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Last night we were too exhausted to set alarm and this Morning when we woke at twenty to one we realised that was a slight oversight. We packed ever so hurriedly and went to find out if we could leave our bags anywhere. The cleaner put them in a room for us and demanded 20dh. We couldn't be bothered with the aggravation so we paid and left to explore. Azrou is a beautiful little place and just outside of the centre there are some quite big, expensive houses. We were both immediately concerned with eating, so we found a place that [View Full Entry]

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It was a fun experience sleeping in a tent in the desert and the optimists in us say that not too many people will have slept through rain in the desert; however we were both glad that we were only there one night. We woke to our alarm at around six and we dressed hastily in order to catch the sunrise. We were a bit annoyed that our guide didn't wake us but it didn't actually matter because it was too cloudy to see much anyway. We climbed a dune behind our camp and looked down on a small nomadic village [View Full Entry]

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We woke this morning and waited with another English guy for the hotel owner to take us to a minibus which would take us to the desert. The minibus was massively overloaded with things on top and inside the bus. There were also twelve of us getting a lift but being the only westerners we were stuck on a bench at the back of the minibus. We were dropped off at what we were told was Hasi Labied but what actually looked more like a collection of clay mud houses. I had been told that there was nothing in Hasi Labied [View Full Entry]

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The room was freezing and there wasn't too much light to help us get up. We paid the bill and were a bit annoyed to find that our terrible breakfast wasn't included in the price of the room as it says in Lonely Planet. We phoned the guy about our trip into the desert and he said he'd do it for 300dh each. (£20) that part we had no problems about but an extra night in the hotel cost a lot. We agreed to it and were told to pay 200dh to the guy at La Vallee as a deposit. We [View Full Entry]

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We slept past our half nine alarm and reluctantly got up at ten instead. The room was dark and freezing but outside the sun was beginning to shine. We had breakfast which was just two flat breads with a bowl of jam and a bowl of butter. We were told by a guy at the hotel that there was a great walk that took four and a half hours and went through the gorge and then up and over. We thought it sounded great, so we got his directions. He told us to walk through the gorge until you came to [View Full Entry]

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We were almost allowed our sleep in although a cleaner knocked on the door just as we were about to get up. The CTM bus was to leave at twelve but due to a miscalculation on our behalf we arrived half an hour early. There was nobody there, no hustlers, beggars or children selling chocolates etc. We paid our 5dh each for baggage and didn't even have to argue for the correct price. We got on the bus and it set off on time and with minimum fuss and no last Minute bodies diving through the side door just as we [View Full Entry]

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