Blogs from Marrakech, Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz, Morocco, Africa - page 12

Geo: 31.6334, -7.9996Bonjour à tous,C'est vraiment bizarre a Essaouira. Il fesait 80 pour cent d'humidité. J'ai lavée une bobette qui n'a jamais séchée et de plus je pouvais la torde encore.Nous avons errer dans la ville . Je suis bien jalouse de Réjean qui ne cesse d'avoir des compliments pour son jellaba. Les compliments viennent des hommes en plus, 1 femme sur le lot. . . c'est louche.Nous nous sommes ballader dans la ville et passer par le quartier Mellah. Qui est l'ancien quartier juif qui tombe en ruine. Puis on s'est rendu au cimetière Chretien et juif. Une autre gros paquet de roche. Puis voila le départ en bus pour Marrakesh. On aurais plus un voyage en bateau qu'en autobus. France aurais eu besoin de gravol elle ne fillait vraiment pas. J'aimerais dire le mal ... read more

On the bus tour it said that the length of the Medina walls was 9Km (5½ miles) so I thought that would be a good idea for a run. It actually turned out to be 10½ miles (including the distance from the hotel and back) as there were a few points where you could run along the wall directly. I was also following what I thought was the Media wall, but it was actually the wall alongside the Jardins de l’Agdal gardens. I realised after a while that it didn’t look right as there were no buildings on the other side of the wall, so I turned around and cut through the gardens themselves, so that added a bit of extra distance. The walls along the side that we had seen were renovated and featured nicely ... read more

I went for another early morning run in the Medina and the Souks were again the empty place that I remembered when I was here early a couple of days ago, however they were starting to come to life even though people were mainly sitting drinking tea before they opened-up their shops. There was a guy in the restaurant at breakfast in Moroccan dress, serving Moroccan tea, so we thought we would give that a try. It was a very sweet mint tea, which was quite refreshing, although too sweet for us. It would have been nice to get a photograph of him is in outfit, complete with a fez, and all his tea gear, but you could tell he was incredibly self-conscious about it, so we saved him the embarrassment. We decided that we would ... read more

2-3 avril "Eille boss... Marrakech, ça s'écrit avec un C ou un G à la fin?" " Eeeee... Marra... eee... avec un G ch'pense..." "Ok boss" - Vu sur une pancarte d'autoroute entre Agadir et Marrakech: Marrakegh 242 km ... Après un arrêt pour la nuit à l'hôtel "La Petite Suède" sans suédois d'Agadir, j'embarque dans le bus vers la fameuse Marrakech située plus au Nord, à l'intérieur des terres du Maroc. C'est que j'ai profité de cette escale dans la ville balnéaire pour d'abord marcher sur la plage ramollie par les vagues épuisées sous le soleil couchant... mais surtout, j'en ai profité pour dormir. Ouaip, dormir un bon douze heures de suite, sans même ouvrir les yeux. Facile ça, avec ce lit de loin le plus confortable que j'ai eu depuis le début de mon ... read more

We didn’t know until we were at the final point of booking the holiday (as a package) that the flights were actually with Ryan Air. We weren’t happy and even less so after each of the emails badgering us about the baggage allowance, badgering us about the cabin allowance, badgering us about the online check-in and badgering us about printing the boarding pass. Failure on any of these would result in horrendous additional costs. I guess it’s fair dos in some ways, as by reminding you so much, it’s actually lowering the risk that they’d get more money out of you. We got to the airport with plenty of time, after dropping our son off at his school as he was off on a school jolly with all his mates – hence our reason for going ... read more