Thursday, March 28, 2002 16:58 Weather: Cool and overcast Location: Train from Algeciras to Madrid So: Holy Week is a Big Deal in Spain. Buses and trains run on reduced holiday schedules. At the same time, all the hostels seem to be full, with all these travellers getting around on fewer transport options. This is […]
12:37 (1:37 Spanish time) Well, my travel plans for today have gone a bit ¨pear-shaped¨, to quote my English friends. That is to say, they´re messed up and I´ve got to figure out what to do next. In retrospect, I should have gone straight to the port and headed for Spain. But I forgot about […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2002 07:35 Weather: Sunny and cool Location: Salon de Thé Metropole, Tangier Although there were apparently no places to be had in the couchette car (see previous post) my compartment (with 4 couchettes) only had two occupants: me and a Moroccan woman from Marrakesh who was going on holiday for a few […]
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 19:44 Weather: Cooler, high clouds Location: Restaurant of Hotel Ibis, Marrakesh I’m in the restaurant of the big hotel next to the train station. Coincidentally, it’s the same hotel I came to Sunday afternoon with Robin, Chloe, Alison & Bob, to swim in their pool. Now, I’m going to eat a […]
23:01 Weather: Damp, but warm Location: Hotel Beau Rivage, Essaouira, Morocco The young man next to me on the bus to Essaouira was a Moroccan named Rashid. He was on his way from the desert, where he lives most of the time, to Essaouira, where his brother has a carpet shop that he can work […]
Monday, March 25, 2002 10:52 Weather: Hot & sunny again Location: Bus, on the way to Essaouira I missed making a diary entry yesterday: I spent the day hanging out with my new English friends. After a late start in the morning, we walked south, hoping to stop in at the tourist office. Unhappily it […]
Saturday, March 23, 2002 18:48 Weather: Hot & steamy, slight haze Location: The atrium of the Hotel Gazelle, Marrakesh My alarm clock woke me at a horribly early hour of the morning and I finished my packing and moved out. At 6am it was barely light out, and the streets were more or less empty. […]
Friday, March 22 20:04 Weather: Not a cloud in the sky. A scorcher. Location: Cyber Café, Boul. Mohammed V, Fès. I had a wonderful day getting to know Fès. I got up early again and wandered out for a coffee and a danish (yes, really) at a Patisserie on Avenue de France. Then back to […]
Thursday, March 21, 2002 21:17 Weather: Hot and sunny again! Location: Grand Hotel Fès, Fès, Morocco I stayed up last night and finished One Hit Wonder, which was a mistake: now I’m out of reading material, and Morocco has far fewer foreign language outlets than, say, Spain. (Not counting French. There are French newspapers everywhere… […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2002 15:56 Weather: Hot and sunny Location: Halfway up a Moroccan mountain above the town of Chefchaouen I’m sitting in the shade of a tree, because the sun is extraordinarily hot. Just over a short rise the path goes down to a ruined mosque above the city of Chefchaouen. The call for […]