http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Morocco , Doukkala Abda en-us Thu, 03 Dec 09 20:12:34 +0000 Thu, 03 Dec 09 20:12:34 +0000 We decided to take a day from school and work to spend the day in El Jedida Morocco. El Jedida is about an hour by coastal road from Casablanca. It is a beautiful trip and we stopped in Azemmour to visit the local medina and the fortress that has a very rich history of Portugese rule. This area was ruled by many countries including Spain Portugal Morocco France and other various tribes. O http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-376216.html Dirty Shoe LacesIreland is in a mall craze. Malls are believed to be key economic boosters in cities. Currently Galway plans to destroy 5 pubs including the one me and Tara work at. The other is one of the oldest pubs in Galway. They also plan to destroy some other really great things like liquor stores a small casino and a music venue. To go in their placehellipa mall Across the stree http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-340580.html What photos What colours I hope they azll make the trip home Have had no luck with the possibility of uploading them but who knows soon. smileMe and Maria just spent two nights in Safi on the coast 200k from Marrakech and are heading to Essaouira this afternoon. where we will spend soe days.Marrakech was really lovely and we saw a number of contradictory towns squeezed into one spa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/Safi/blog-315991.html We got up nice and late and thoroughly enjoyed taking our time getting ready. We almost managed to successfully avoid the slightly sleazy hotel guy but at the last moment he came over for a chat. We went out in search of a cremerie where we could buy picnic items. We bought yoghurts bread cheese and fruit including an expensive apple.As we were walking back through town towards the beach we sa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/Safi/blog-255500.html Ok so it sounds like we have an addiction to crepes but we have only had so many because we had to buy our own syrup for the first lot. We sat and ate the crepes whilst waiting for other people to turn up for the collective. We only had to wait about forty minutes for the taxi to fill up and we were on our way. Strangely enough we didn't receive the whole you can buy out the whole taxi spiel whi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/Safi/blog-254105.html The wind sounded entirely uninviting and too fierce to entice us out of bed. We willed ourselves to believe that if we stayed in bed long enough the wind would disappear. The wind didn't disappear but the day was so we did eventually get up. Whilst I got ready Rob nipped out to see if the lady selling crepes was there but she wasn't. Instead we had breakfast at our hotel which wasn't fantastic http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/Oualidia/blog-254104.html We woke up this morning not entirely certain of how we were getting to Oualidia. Once we had packed up our bags we sought out the CTM bus station in the hope that there would be a bus. We were lucky that there was one leaving at twelve thirty and that we could leave our bags there whilst we went for a walk around.I saw that there was a bookshop nearby that had a small selection of English langu http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/blog-254101.html After a few days of taking care of business in Casablanca we were looking forward to heading south along what we anticipated would be the really scenic portion of Morocco's Atlantic coastline. The only big cities we expected to encounter along the way were Safi and Agadir although we weren't sure just how far we would go past Agadir the desert outposts along the coast seemed to diminish in a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-247492.html Just like in America Moroccan kids get a nice long summer vacation. Also like in America many Moroccan kids go away to summer camp for various activities such as sports music art and language. Just like in the springtime Peace Corps participates in these ministry sponsored camps by sending volunteers from the Youth Development sector to run language classes and clubs. The extra bonus atta http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-127011.html 10 heure mardi le 14 nous quittions Casablanca en direction sud bord de notre superbe autoune Suzuki au fait je ne crois pas vous lrsquoavoir ditvoil crsquoest fait.Empruntant la route qui longe la cte en surplomb nous avons fait un premier arrt AlJadidaune petite ville fonde en 1513 par les portugais pour protger leur commerce intrieur.Drsquoailleur la forteresse que nous http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-120024.html At this camp I switched from English teacher to Librarian. I get enough teaching in my work site and wanted to try something different at camp. The librarian works a slightly different schedule from the other volunteers since I donrsquot work during class or club time. But I am on duty during all the breaks.Out library is amazing and was stocked by the US Embassy in Rabat THANK YOU with ove http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-88506.html The best possible escape from hot sandstorms of the Marrakech region is the breezy Atlantic coast. I got to spend the two weeks with fourteen other PCVs and four JICAs Japanese International Cooperation Agency in a camp close to downtown El Jedida and only a five minute walk from the beach.There are lots of camps sponsored by the Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports but four are billed as En http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/El-Jadida/blog-88499.html We spend a relaxing five days in Essaouria recovering from the mountain experience of woe. Essaouria was a really fab place busy but relaxed with a combination of artists and rastas who made the whole town have a very chilled out feel.Spent our time sitting and watching and learning to walk again. In our time there we managede to swim in the seam eat freshly caught sardines flood our bedroom ha http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Morocco/Doukkala-Abda/Safi/blog-70166.html