Blogs from Fez, Anti-Atlas, Morocco, Africa

Once we found our riad we were really impressed with the beauty of it. It had beautiful architecture and a beautiful courtyard. And luckily the girl that worked there spoke English so Tyler was finally able to communicate with someone other than me. They brought us tea and gave us a map outlining the main sites of the medina. From there we were brought to our room. Our room was gorgeous and was decorated with beautiful Moroccan woodwork. However one strange thing........ no door on the bathroom. It was just wide open in the room. Tyler and I ran into this problem in Thailand and worked out a system of one person waiting outside while the other used the washroom. We used this system again. The shower was also open with no curtain or anything which ... read more

We had our second of many bread-only breakfasts in Morocco this morning, but there were several different kinds of bread, one being very much like my grandmother's cornbread, and lovely jam and butter and coffee. Enis was functioning much better than I thought he would without his Turkish tea. Moroccans drink mint tea, which I loved, but they didn't serve it at breakfast at our hotel. Our breakfasts were good in Morocco, but consisted mainly of bread. That is very French and the Moroccans have definitely been influenced by the French - food, architecture, language, and attitudes were all reflective of their time as a French colony. Unfortunately...' After breakfast we walked to the medina and immediately found a spice store featured in Lonely Planet. The guy working there told us his father was Mr. Spice ... read more

Well, hasn't that gone fast? I just looked and it has been a bit over 3 months since my last blog! In that time, I haven't done a whole lot of travel but I've still managed to get quite a lot accomplished anyway. After my 27 hour flight back, landing at 6am and going straight work (mental note: never again), unsurprisingly it took me a little while to recover. But over the next month I managed to get a flat sorted with Ben as we scored ourselves a very cool 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom bachelor pad with great views over the city of London. As winter strengthened its grip on London over the following months, I was kept fairly busy with Hapkido, watching Leeds all over the UK, gigs, and a guys stag weekend to Dublin ... read more