Being the complete and utter tight arses that we are we decided to move into the cheaper room we had originally booked. The room is half the price (£6 for a double room) and exactly the same but without the view of the sea. I think the owner always puts people in the rooms with views to begin with in the hope that you will love it and not bother to change. We left our hotel and turned onto the main street and our noses led us directly to a food stall. There was a woman standing over a hot plate [View Full Entry]

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Our last breakfast in Marrakech was as good as all our previous ones; only a little earlier. We left the hotel and walked to the bus station, just outside the medina, for 9 o'clock. The bus stations was another of those must-do Moroccan events. On arrival we were greeted and ushered towards a bus and then charged extra for our bags; another 20 DHR. This was followed with a 45 minute wait on a full bus for our departure time. This was not any normal boring wait, no, it was special. We were bombarded with beggars, the blind, kids, sellers and [View Full Entry]

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We had a slight sleep in today and got up at ten for breakfast. Our primary goal for today was figuring out the onward part of our journey. We knew that Essaouira was our next stop, so we walked to the bus station to get the tickets. Lonely Planet said that there were nine daily buses there with a company called CTM who charged 60dh. Just as soon as we stepped foot in the entrance of the station, a guy came over and asked where we were going. He told us his company went there for 45dh and went at a [View Full Entry]

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Shock horror, we looked out of the window this morning and the sky had clouds in it. We even had the patio heater on for our breakfast in the courtyard. There were two things we wanted to do today; I wanted to see another palace and Rob wanted to see some gardens. Because Friday is a Muslim holy day, the opening times were a bit obscure and we found ourselves in the medina with nothing to do. For ages I have wanted a perfume called Hypnotic Poison and we found a shop selling an extremely good copy for 49dh (approx 3.30) [View Full Entry]

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Breakfast was more fun than usual because we had the company of lots of little birds which enjoyed our breakfast with us. We spent a while enjoying the courtyard and watching the birds and then headed into Djemaa el-fna in the medina. We phoned Hicham and he said he would meet us upstairs in café France in the square. We both ordered Jus d'orange and sat and watched everyone going about their business and dodging hustlers etc. When Hicham arrived we chatted a while and then followed him to his workplace. We walked through more of the backstreets and there was [View Full Entry]

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Breakfast was good again but slightly later than yesterday. We discussed our good intentions for the day and got as far as mapping our route. We needed a new penknife due to ours being confiscated at customs so we asked and a very nice lady translated for us and found a shop for us. We semi-successfully bought one (it is a very cheap version) and when we returned to the hotel, the lady (Vicki) was still there. We started chatting to her and we discovered that she knew Morocco very well. We sat down with our map and she filled us [View Full Entry]

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Breakfast was surprisingly good with a huge glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. We sat in the courtyard and ate surrounded by orange trees. Whilst we ate we consulted our guidebooks to see where we should begin our explorations. Eventually we decided to stick to our routine for the first day in a city and just wander and get lost. We walked the correct way into the medina and suffered immensely in the heat. The main avenue Mohammad 5 leads straight from our hotel into the medina. The road in was crazy and just so chaotic with little observable regulation for [View Full Entry]

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Everyone in our room seemed to be checking out today, so were all up fairly early. Breakfast was a bit lame and made us glad it was our last one. We then dumped our bags in the luggage room and checked out. From the hostel we went into a department store looking for a few things; toilet roll, socks and lense cleaner. All the things Morroco might not have. Although we didn't find anything of what we wanted we did manage to go to the top of the building looking for toilets; all eight floors! After not finding what we wanted [View Full Entry]

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This was one of our later mornings as we slept in to half nine. It was a rough night due to a group of inconsiderate Americans. Breakfast was terrible because there was nothing left and the dining room was packed. Unusually the internet was working so we uploaded our first blogs of Barcelona and we even managed to upload pictures. We really wanted to buy some toilet roll for Morocco so we walked to a few supermarkets we knew and they were all closed, as were all the shops. I know this is normal but I just assumed that Barcelona would [View Full Entry]

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Another nice early start and we were ready to head out to Montjuic. All the guidebooks say that this is an unmissable part of Barcelona so with very little else to do we decided to go there. We opted out of the cable car option knowing the cost of it and instead bought a metro ticket which enabled us to use the metro and the funicular. We got off the funicular and we appeared to be in the middle of the mountain and we didn't really know what to do or where to go. We looked out over Barcelona and the [View Full Entry]

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