Blogs from Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco, Africa - page 2

Shopped Around the old Medina Treated ourselves to local hammams. The caretakers of our Riad took my husband and I to the local hammams they frequent. they were located at opposite ends of the Medina but each of us got quite The scrub With coffee grinds The best part they costed less than 70 MDR We are not sure how we got there right left straight left right and thru a narrow passageway and a metal door and voila you have entered a vaulted space. With white slippery tiled floors and steamy hot. I came out feeling 5 pounds lighter for shedding /Scrubbing away dead skin. If you have the time treat yourself to one.... read more

It has been a long while But our long time dream of visiting Morocco Has come true the Riad had arranged for a driver to pick my husband and I from the airport at different times My husband arrived in the afternoon and I arrived at midnight As I drove thru The city, I was not sure how to describe it Modern? Traditional? Old? Safe? Crowded? I was dropped off at the entry to the old city and was greeted by Ibrahim the keeper of the Riad We walked thru the old city, dirty, full of trash and stray cats, I wondered what I got ourselves into this time The alleyways were being cleaned But at this late hour the activity was overwhelming we walked thru several dark alleyways, before we arrived at our Riad Ibrahim ... read more

Rabat – Capital city with a thousand cats (& kittens). A Travel back in time experience……. The Start - Flying out London Stansted to Rabat We fly from Stanstead Airport with Ryan Air to Rabat – they only fly Tuesdays and Saturdays which is a bind as we will arrive in Morocco in the last two days of Ramadan. So being in the country for the end of Ramadan and Eid itself we thought, should be an interesting experience. The plane leaves 45mins late and is ok, despite the irritating screaming kids whose Moroccan parents don’t seem to give a toss about the noise they are making. The flight time is about 3Hrs. In Rabat, Passport/Immigration Control is fast and efficient and could have been quicker had the airline given out the Landing Cards to fill ... read more

Im Hotel wurde mir versichert, dass die bei Auto Ryad = BMW Motorrad erst um 10.00 anfangen würden. Aber sie wären schon um 8.00 dagewesen. Ich also etwas später, es waren auch 20 km zu fahren. Irgendwann geriet ich auf eine sechsspurige Prachtstraße, gesäumt von Straßenlampen in marokkanischem Barock und vielen Polizisten. Diese machten gerade die Straße frei für irgendwas Wichtiges. Vielleicht wurde der Pudel des Premierministers zum Gassi gehen gefahren. Bei BMW spricht kein Mensch Englisch aber wir einigten uns schnell, dass Paul ans Diagnostik Gerät muss. Jetzt warte ich. Ich soll in SECHS Stunden wiederkommen..... Vielleicht müssen sie das Diagnostik Gerät erst erfinden???? Fertig waren sie allerdings erst um 18.30, da bekam ich zuerst die Rechnung und dann das Ergebnis. 25.- €, alles in Ordnung. Vielleicht soll ich an dieser Stelle gleich einfügen, dass ... read more

Day 8 & 9 8 is a sea day sailing from Barcelona to Casablanca. Booked a massage (Elke’s was good). Went for a hot tub. Only crazy Canadians will go into a hot tub in cool weather with a gale force wind blowing. Played scrabble and went for dinner to the buffet restaurant (we had never done that). Elke had Cioppino which wasn’t quite as good as the Pelican Club in New Orleans. 9 we are up early for a tour of Casablanca and the capitol Rabbat. The tour guide spoke to us only in Arabic for a good 10 minutes until some people started asking for English. Nuri the guide answered in English that this was the Arabic tour. Best part of the tour. Bus headed for the King’s Palace. I have very little internet ... read more

Nieco po 10/00 vyrazam z ubytka na stanicu. Vyplacam ubytko a mimo mediny kupujem loksu, neskor aj neaky ten kolac co kupovali deti ale to mi moc nechutilo. Nakup pohladnic a smer hned posta, tu mi oznamena sbskarom, ze znamky nemaju. Keby vim tak ani pohladnice nekupujem. Na bus stanici zistene,ze 12/15 bus nejde a ide az 12/50, obycajny t.j. stoji to vsade. Na stanici citanie knihy a este mensia prechadzka na blizke namesticko, samozrejme do kopca. Na namesticku len kopa skolakov a fajn vyhlad na hory inak nic zaujimave. Opat platim batozinu, opat skusam dat len 5dh ale nie nie, treba este 5 pridat. V buse zasa len jediny turista, ja. Cesta sa natiahla na neuveritelnych 5,5hod. Maha mi uz o 16/30 volala ale po zdvihnuty som nic neocul, smsky sa jej samozrejme dorucit nedali ... read more