Freedom in Morocco for a dynamic vacation

After months of indecision on the destination of our next summer vacation, I and my husband we decided to Morocco. The desire to give our eyes can see from our different worlds, cultures that fascinate and surprise and 'very strong in us.
We tourists do it yourself, but do not go around unwary, where and 'can we prevent and avoid trouble.
Thanks in advance to those before us have written his account by providing all information as possible to arrange a trip in the best possible way.
As for other trips I have enclosed all the information found on Morocco in a personalized guide, where there are suggestions of who was there before us, what to see and not see, what to eat, where to stay, what to avoid, to make trips What to buy ... a little of everything ..
If you want something more thorough on Morocco and involves the view of many people scaricatevi our site MOROCCO GUIDE www.viaggiareconpassione.com at www.viaggiareconpassione.com / stories / morocco-dani.htm

Before starting to read our detailed story on our holiday I tell you now what are our conclusions so decide whether to continue reading ... us why you like Morocco has allowed us to see new cultures, new mondo.lo call a country VIVO.
People are kind and friendly and we have not been afraid at any time even if we have completely turned the adventure and do-it-yourself ...
It spends very little .... the important thing is to always treat: we sleep, we spent 7 nights for only 199 euro in two
To eat in MARRAKECH, we spent an average of 6-7 euro in two (it is logical that depends on where and what to eat and the tourist restaurants are much more expensive)
For traporti we have entrusted to trains and buses and we were well in the story are spending on each route, but is considerably lower than rates in Italy.
We have also made the trip to the desert to an entrusting local and we spent 70 euros and head for two days, with a night in the desert .... Then read the story

If you have questions and doubts you may have we are happy if we can answer it as others have done with us .. This is our address:
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PRECISE THAT WE HAD A HOLIDAY handling FAULT OF A PROBLEM IN THE CAR THAT HAS CHANGED OUR PROGRAMS, SO IF YOU WANT ONLY THE STORY ON MOROCCO AFTER THE FIRST TWO DAYS DIRECTLY TO THE PAST ... 11/08/05.
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REGGIO EMILIA - BARCELONA

WEDNESDAY '03/08/2005

Departure by car from Reggio Emilia at 03:30 arriving in Barcelona at 14:00 or so.
Highway in France, only 39.4 euro toll motorway in Spain 10.15 Euro.
Diesel up to 140 euro Barcelona.
(Before starting clear that with hindsight we would have surely arranged differently on the move, saving money and time, for example fly to SEVILLE with Ryan air, bus trips to Tarifa and Morocco in train or bus. ... But now )
Afternoon and night to return the energy spent in the French FOURMULE1 which is also found in some areas of Spain and that gives you a good place to sleep and prices. Clean room with three beds, a sink more television and air conditioning all for 32 euros per room. To look for exact address on the site www.fourmule1. com
Walk in the center of Barcelona on the Rambla (not 'the time to tell you how wonderful Barcelona but if you have not already visited us, as we did in a previous holiday then I would advise you if you can stop for a few more days') dinner in the port Olympic subway Ciuttadella. arrived in the vicinity 'of the port you will find many local bars and small clubs around in the middle is the REY DE LA GAMBA (p. joan de borba °' 46). Excellent place to eat the delicious fish to keep evil at a price not exaggerating.
Ask a fried or grilled fish for two people at a price of 40 euro total and I guarantee you that hardly emptied the pot.
After a good night's sleep to start 7.

CAR BROKEN

THURSDAY '04/08/2005

Start following the tips of a friend found on a virtual by-case basis where tourists advised to go via Madrid, but in the final analysis, there appeared to be the best choice even if we have saved something on the toll.
We spent a lot of money for the necessary checks of the car (tire, mechanic, electrician), but it has decided to do despite turning a light unknown to us, and decreasing power.
The temptation to ignore it and 'very strong then the voice of wisdom or the fear that Arab land was certainly more complicated to find a Renault dealer and communicate in Arabic, we have to stop in a small village devoid of interest named Manzanares ( near Ciudat Real).
After the mechanic checks made by connecting their computers with the power of our car tells us that non e 'una cosa seria ... sigh of relief on our part ..
But the hours pass and he changed expression; telephone to our mechanic to Italy to ask .. is the fact that we have been suffering from a rare thing, that the mechanical e 'stata la mala suerte ..
Let me explain briefly: we clean a valve, and said the Italian mechanic, not the controller serves un'azzeramento while our technical reprocesses Spanish wanted the whole car and then our power no longer wished to take the codes of the 4 injectors and LED and not 'more off.
Do also go to Morocco because of that his car has no problem and has lost only a little 'power?
We and the mechanic Italian wonder if it would not have any problem, why not take the codes and not able to go further to 130 km per hour on the plain?
We decide to leave the car overnight in the Renault car dealership and hope that leaving the battery disconnected and engine cold the next day takes place the miracle ...
We are forced to go to a hotel in the area, a guy who had to control his car and 'offered to accompany us to a hotel rather his economic knowledge.
The Spanish are very friendly and warm people are never grumpy or bother if you ask information.
Let us get back to us, leads us to Menano (virgen de la paz 20, telephone: 926 61 09 16 Manzanates) two stars but for me it did not understand at least five criteria with which to evaluate them .. luxury hotel with light in the corridors you turn to our passage, and a huge room with TV and air conditioning and an equally large bathroom with shower with hydromassage.
To give you an idea in leaving things to the customers than the usual soap and bath were two toothbrushes with their toothpaste, two razors with shaving foam and two brushes for the shoes .. forgot c'e 'anche il hairdryer, all for 48 euros per room.
I am not saying that just in Italy but a room so do pay at least double if not triple.
Released in the evening for dinner we turn quickly for the country but do not see many restaurants and taverns ...
The only one is in front of our hotel, this is a place where they placed a lot of tables and eating outdoors is full of people, the service fast enough and normal prices.
Us for two large water bottles and a glass of beer a bruschetta with ham, mixed salad and a meat grigliatina we spent 23 euros.

CORDOBA

FRIDAY 05/08/2005

The morning breakfast at 5 euros.
Telephone Renault dealer and after ten minutes and 'in front of our hotel, saying no bueno!
We pay for their work and 95 euro a muchas gratias there we go.
The vacancy and 'ruined, depressed We will consult on what to do, the only sure thing e'che with the machine under conditions of risk are we not in Morocco.
After the initial stun three guides on Morocco bought and hours spent on the Internet to learn about the experiences of others; us consulate seeking a plan and an alternative holiday: Spain, Portugal and France have much to offer and if we have new problems with the car not We are a world with a completely unknown language.
We head to CORDOBA, the city that we have not yet visited in the holidays of 2002.
We arrive and we did not really want to turn and find a hotel at a cheaper price as long as there is.
Just entering the city we see the hotel via MARIANO avda de cadiz CORDOBA 60 phone 957 294 166 (www.josuba.com e-mail: hotelmariano@josuba.com)
Stable huge dated and certainly nothing like the luxury of just left, but the smaller room with air conditioning and clean.
Paid 45 euros for a night.
The warm and 'really expect oppressive 18:30 before deciding to start our tour of the city.
Wrong, it was necessary to wait at least another two hours for no gutter heat.
From our hotel safely reach the area early on foot in ten minutes, a nice walk saw the landscape if not for heat that makes it opaque to our eyes.
The city is undergoing restructuring and turning note that within us are many hotels at a lower price, the lowest seen is 30 euros for a room in the center behind the medina.
My advice is if you are not exhausted, to park the car as it is impossible or almost reach the hotel by car, take you behind if you do not have a lot of your luggage and deep in the center, ask and then choose the one you inspired.
We always prefer to spend 5 euros more but be calm to be in a clean place.
But everyone is' your choice and know its portfolio.
In CORDOBA all the places to visit close by 19:00, when normally you start to exit. We are losing a lap in the alleys of the Juderia and shopping here and there '. We find a room in the Arabic style and above all very nice, fresh, go for refuge from the oppressive heat and choose from the long list of assorted hot and cold that make up the menu.
But nothing in our wanderings alarm our desire to see and experience the city.
The shops, one saw all seen, full of the usual things, we still have the head to Morocco. Tomorrow morning with the fresh visit to the mosque;
very important note: in the morning from 8:30 until 10:00 the gates open and they go free, you save less than 6 euros.
Falling through the characteristic Roman bridge: I advise you to wait and see an unusual show for me: thousands of birds gather in flocks that fly in the sky waiting to descend on the trees near the river to spend the night. are many in heaven that those who have already found a place to sleep .. There are trees that change color covered in classes lower than white birds and tips are completely blacks.
I am not telling you the exact names of the birds not to be safe, maybe transfers and herons.
Dinner in the restaurant though and 'open to all which proved to be wise because we take the menu of the day consists of a starter, main course, dessert and drink all for 6.60 euros each.
Good and plentiful portions. Other times we have found that eating in a hyper crowded with tourists do not have a good service. Will eat just because the portions are miserable and spend more than necessary.
Repeat Mariano restaurant on the street.

CORDOBA - SEVILLE

SATURDAY 06/08/2005

Let's visit the mosque's free, beautiful and had to be something really wonderful at the time of Arab domination (but Morocco would have been so?) Tip of nostalgia ...
We do a walk through the city enjoying the cool of the morning and then at noon we return to the hotel ready to leave and head toward SEVILLE.
During the trip I will try again and if you bring the car in another Renault dealer to see if you adjust?
Diego does not want to spend more money unnecessarily and does not want to further disappointments, our itinerary does not change, then SEVILLE Portugal ALGARVE precisely and then Porto, Santiago capatina a short stay in Asturias and way to stop home to Bordeaux and then a greeting to our beloved Nice.
Morocco goodbye.
Arrival in the afternoon to SEVILLE, this time we head towards the center and every time I see a Hostal or pension I will stop to ask the price. The center is full, there is only the choice .. It is 25 euros a night, but ask to see the room and over to be truly squalid're almost afraid to wake up the next morning without a kidney or without portfolio. (As they are bad but you needed to see their faces).
Choose the pension hostal San Benito (at the bottom of Canarios in the barrio de Santa Cruz) 36 euros per night with fan in the room nothing special but very clean and then we are in the center. It is not easy to park the car and saw that we will not need the more we put in a parking lot guarded 14 euro for 24 hours right next to where sleep.
Again we close to the hotel since the heat and decide to go out alone at night, but even here it will always be too soon and we are forced to rifugiargi in a bar and cool off and wait for the hours pass.
The heat does not enable us to appreciate the city that is very characteristic and has a lot to offrire.L 'only sure thing is that we want to review a flamenco show (which had already seen their holiday in Granada in 2002).
Prices range from 12 euros to 27 euros ..
Surfing the internet a guy advised to go to a bar where they play every night of flamenco is not for tourists but for the pleasure of all.
Coincidence is not very far from where we are. I try to get an idea of the whole.
The show is free only serves the consummation but the Saturday and Sunday only is drunk while other days you eat too.
Light dinner in the restaurant el cordobes on a street in the center where they give the menu, in my salad I find that a two vermetti walked quiet in my tomatoes, fortunately I had not eaten a single leaf.
Ten minutes the performance of flamenco are all many young people and beginners, but they are good and the place much like a typical tale of ... Garcia Marquez makes everything out of the ordinary.

SOME DAYS IN PORTUGAL - TARIFA

SUNDAY 07/08/2005


You leave for Portugal but we are not yet sure what to do: we want new ideas ... to go or not go to Morocco ... the fear of what we do not know some brakes ... we decide to go to Portugal to relax and see the mind more serena what to do and how to organize your luggage ...
The journey is quiet, at last we arrive at Salema (Lagos after a few km) to campsite Quinta dos Carricos that we were lovers in 2002, is a wonder, you're fresh.


MONDAY 08/08/2005

... Wonder that the ALGARVE! High cliffs, coves not too crowded, air-cooler (heat we did the full in Spain) and above all relax.
Diego will take advantage and sleep until noon providentially in our drop-in loading your luggage because you never know ...
My cerebellum continues to work ... I WANT THE MAROCCOOOO!
But how?
Spend the afternoon for a stroll coves before returning to spend in a supermarket to buy some 'meat to make barbecue that we have a short walk from our campsite.
Evening relax with a good book and a cool breeze that makes us forget the heat suffered in Spain and that makes us sleep divinely


TUESDAY 09/08/2005

Provide alarm (maybe 9?). The time has changed, and there nuvolo cross between an eye and a 'will to rain. They take advantage and we headed Sao Vincente, the extreme south-west of Portugal. Arrivati understand that we were not the only ones with the Ideon ... there is a row of parked cars that will be one kilometer long. We parked, but instead of going on the road we are on the cliff (the true attraction of the place) where we get the feeling of being alone! Arrived at the lighthouse, which of course is closed for renovations, we pause 5 million, we stand some of geode and fossil and then fled in the car just in time for the rain not peck ... ok now decided tomorrow we leave for Morocco, leave the car somewhere in Tarifa and will be made with local media, we will not be as free as we wanted and we do everything that we set up but now nobody can stop us ..

WEDNESDAY 10/08/2005

We wake up, do a quick breakfast and to dismantle the tent quickly, we are now starting the frenzy ...
Peaceful journey, arrival in Tarifa: it seems the only place where there is something over a km and there is a terrible chaos and we still find a parking place immediately when leaving the car while we are in Morocco at a price which is equivalent to ferry ticket for the car alone, we accept.
We decided then to find accommodation for the night, everyone is incredibly full even if spending more than what we planned (not above the € 80 anyway) do not find a room that is a turn ... like crazy for hours, reaching up to Aljazira but there is nothing to do ok ... sleep in the car!

A BUFFER AND FINALLY... MOROCCO

THURSDAY '11/08/2005

We are sleeping by magic, the last time I looked at the time was half past four when we wake up from un'urto violence against our car. When I ride I see a toyota that has planted his back to speed enough supported in our back.
It 'an incubator, what else can happen to us? We are well aware that there is worse to end.
Down a German girl who speaks Spanish and said that he wanted to avoid the camper parked on the other side of the road thirty meters before us and saw us.
Speaking understand that was late coming out and that his path has not used their rear view mirrors and was in a hurry.
Made sure we were still firm and you have buffered.
Its logically Jeppe has not made even a scratch, we believe in fact spending has made a lot of evil around the bumper to change because you have planted your tow hook into making a nice hole and even more All the door.
Fill out a declaration of mutual observation of an accident while you say that we will pay for it is your fault ....
The day started a little 'Maluccio, is again back with if only ...
The fact is that with the darkness of the night we had not noticed that they could get out from behind the machine and I was more confident that the dawn would have been alarm and that there would be gone before somebody accorgesse of our presence.
La tipa buffered us ten minutes before the sound of the alarm.
Are demoralized, but not blocked, we decide that everything goes as planned, perhaps if the car remains stationary ten days in a guarded parking lot can not happen anything serious. Hopefully!
We do not think we ever truly on the ferry that will take us in Morocco, we can not not think about all the mishaps that have happened. We only hope to be able to really refresh the mind and the enjoyment of all things beautiful and varied that Morocco has to offer.
We took the fast ferry (so they say but instead of 35 'minutes promised us more than we now, there is no problem) to Tarifa and pay 97.20 euros in two A \ R.
We arrive in Tangier somewhat 'prejudiced, after what we have read about false guides, procurers on business and taxi drivers, we fear that once we landed, assaulted and attacked by a flood of Moroccans. Is exactly the opposite, we have a very quiet down, we head to the left of the port where there are ATMs and exchange offices, we prefer to collect directly. Finished, a 'man asks us kindly if we need a taxi, and where we are .. we have no direct desire to negotiate and accept a move immediately to the train station at 5 euros including bags, is a grand taxi and has a pair the British on board, are directed at the railway station and charged us 5 euro.
We arrive at the station and move back two hours of the clock and we're lucky (at least once every time) the train to RABAT partly 30mn.
Train TANGIER-RABAT DH 89.50 per person.
As the terminus we find their seats, with later stops after you fill up the impossible.

RABAT

The landscape is varied: we can see the salt with men intent to shovel mountains of salt,
men at the back of donkeys that work the land with the horse and passing in front of a kind of furnace where they work the land for both the jars that the bricks.
Our eyes are hungry for new things in our brains this step gave a burst of adrenaline.
Of all the km that we train more than poverty and a land far away from our fully discover something omnipresent: the way they dispose of waste, simply getting out of the city or in less congested areas, everywhere you look you see that blacks bags badminton, after their content is degraded and has lost around.
We conclude the last part of the train standing good care to acknowledge our stop.
We call and descend on the fly while a flood of people pushing to climb.
Off, no one there and we stress that RABAT there are at least two train stations and the hotel where we are direct IBIS is logically interrelated.
Trying to find a taxi (we have to almost beg) and Dh 15 for us at the hotel.
Booklet on the IBIS (ibishotel.com) (place of the races RABAT-Agdal phone 212 (0) 37 77 49 19 / 26 / 41) tells us that cost 440 Dh (44 euros) per room but once we discover that the place have included breakfast and that the whole is leavened 548 ... tomorrow morning DH eat the impossible ...
We give two hour rest and then we head by taxi to the medina for 30 Dh (we are sure that you can spend even less). OK I have something indescribable and this is our first experience, I do not think we can in words make the idea, un'ammasso sellers screaming mixed crowd, selling anything and so totally random and disorganized, there are men dressed in a kind of vest that other mammals that are not paid in a fresh water glasses that have connected to the belt, stalls full of lovely sweet and inviting at the same time became nauseating sight of all the bees that are above and see the peaceful people who eat as if nothing had happened. Believed to be mentally prepared to lack of cleaning but today it is still too early because our stomach to accept some food.
I saw people mutilated, disfigured, without arms, blind begging ..
I saw a seller of turtles from the earth, had the most to the tiny size normal.
I saw a child who was selling some great chicks were it not that they were orange, yellow gold, blue and gray ...
I have seen stands with feet, heads and intestines of animals exposed to one side selling music, or underwear.
Beautiful mountains of colorful spices.
We do not have the courage to return and photograph what we see, no one bothered us, facing the floor and we do not want to create problems photographing.
Let us go forward until we see an exit, but we do not have a clue of where we are, we would like to see two or three most important monuments in RABAT but we do not succeed in that chaos, we should take another taxi but there should be, opened to dark ...
Turn a bit looking for a place to tell our decent to eat and find a place where it is typical dishes, sandwiches and pizza that.
I have some problemino with spices and remedies with a margherita pizza that, to be Moroccan, nothing bad, but you also spiced OK, Diego eats a mix of grilled meat (at the end are three skewers a lot of rice, fries, another trifoliata piles of carrots and a little 'mayonnaise .. and not much contour abundance of meat) but all good, water and coca cola pay Dh 63 in two.
We find a taxi immediately and return the square of the hotel.
Faced all'Ibis there is a shop that sells phone cards of the Moroccan telecoms will take a 100 shots pagandola 99 Dh.
In the station is full of phones and we can call home to reassure Mom and Dad.
Immediately at the hotel begins to write the story of the day and then when it is midnight Pacific Time zone in which the ten Morocco hunting me in bed in front with the prospect of ten hours sleep, on the contrary Diego law until five hours and three Italian local time .

MARRAKECH

FRIDAY 12/08/2005

Breakfast as it is included in the price of the room and then waiting for the hour of our treno.Abbiamo decided the night before not to spend too much time in RABAT, but to go directly to MARRAKECH where we stay four to five days doing some hiking in areas close.
Train-RABAT MARRAKECH Dh 202 people in two and depart at 10:40 arriving at around 15:20 .... Travel that does not end more but we are lucky to just find a seat even if the train is really full.
Arrived we were mentally prepared encroachment of false taxi drivers and guides for our joy, but there is nothing.
Two men are asking us if we need a taxi, and our refusal to go immediately to other people, we had decided to stop at the Ibis for one night because it is next to the station and then calmly head without suitcases in search of a 'cheaper hotel.
but unfortunately it is complete, we are approached by a taxi driver driving a petit taxi and this time accettiamo.Chiediamo of us looking for accommodation economic, the first is called Hotel Jnan EL HART (rue Cadi Ayyad 30 phone 044 44 80 00 fax 044 44 93 29) has a free air-conditioned rooms, but calls for Dh 550 per room including breakfast and dinner in the price, is not much when compared to prices in Italy, we call other hotels in the area (in Gueliz ville nouvelle), but we are tired and we return all 'HART at least for this night then we will see tomorrow.
After a refreshing swim and some 'rest died from want to see the famous square Jemaa el-FNA after all that we have read in the guide.
We are not far away, avoid the taxi and do a walk of twenty minutes' walk softly taking confidence with the city.
In our journey we meet lonely hotels listed on the Planet, but they are all complete, we start to worry (you're in really good, but revered and served our portfolio will suffer a little).
We arrive around sunset and the square is taking life, people around assiepano dancers, singers (which we do not understand as they are narrated in Arabic) of snake charmers and umbrellas everywhere with the women who give you just a glimpse all tattoo 'henne'. wander quite intimidated, but now realize that almost everything is very quiet (quiet Moroccan means ...) and there's nothing to be afraid.
Just be careful about photographing, or at least know that for every character at some photos of the square he has to pay a tip (copyright?) Or arguing.
We are also in the medina (which then only find the entry) and Diego stopped by a boy who offers the ginger to the modest sum of 1.50 dh. We come closer to a guy who does the beautiful and that after a couple of offers stupidity of smoking but this is the only opportunity of its kind in the entire vacation. And 'the hour of prayer and the souk is very filling and we are not yet prepared for this, we go out, we hungry ... We have the courage to eat a feast in the square if you do not do too much if the cleaning is not that bad, it is a different world but I think it is beautiful tuffarcisi at least a little ', we can not judge everything from top to bottom view of the better world we are different cultures but I am happy to have the good fortune of being born in Italy, at least in some respects .
Back to the reality of the journey ... but I trust not too much, at least I want to avoid the curse (intestinal disorder) eat cous-cous and vegetables Diego quietly eats lamb kebabs and French fries. We spend two to 55 Dh.
Of all that and I will eat in the coming days for me as it is a bit picky, but not overly so, the worst thing is how they wash the dishes after we served, I am sure that there is the use of detergent but not hot ... the pass in two pans and then away, ready for use by the next customer .. I must confess that I have always drank from the neck of bottles of water sigillate.Quando can I avoid them like the glasses, but when you want to drink one of those wonderful fresh squeezed orange juice and vitamins that are in place as I do? There are no paper cups and I am sure and wash riusino also straws ... but then it is better not to think about it .. why cutlery? I can not eat with your hands ... I close my eyes and concentrate on food. And I hope ....
The square has a magic effect, you're not just in another world but it seems even in another time.
We do a tour in hotels around the square but they are all filled, even ones slain, but many say, revise tomorrow after the 10th
Taxi for 15 Dh and we are again at the hotel.

GOING AROUND BETWEEN THE SOUKS

SATURDAY 13/08/2005

Today we hope very much to be able to find a cheaper hotel.
After breakfast at hotel included in the price of the room directly involved in the square and the medina, where in its interior are enclosed cheaper hotels.
Turn in search of a hotel but we suck suk inside full of alleys and streets strabordanti of each type of store.
As you read on the guide's area of Babuccio, that skin, clothing, iron and the like, etc. .. i suk is indescribable but it runs comfortably without the aid of a guide, if you miss a turn, continue Follow the crowd or up to ask for the square, they are very kind, at most in exchange for some coins will offer to accompany you.
We do not we ever needed.
Are affected by a blouse with the typical Moroccan embroideries and do not have to say that Diego is a beautiful boy who suffered there WILLINHOLLY and the bargaining begins, we are still too fresh and we fall in its trap. From the initial price he says will give him in half and then go up to the end of the pay Dh 120 but I am sure on reflection the day after that I had to Dh 60-80. We continue our discovery in WILLINHOLLY suk and are from a guy that I began to dress with a blue tunic and the hat makes me like the blue men of the desert and asks Diego to photograph and then asks what you want to pay? Being willing we are to pay 130 dh because such a fabric and its good and has a fine embroidery.
They are very skillful.
Unfortunately, the visit to the souks and the fact that never again find the exit did stop nosra hotel search, and then we 40mn our room will be reconfirmed. (All the rooms are left at 12:00).
Try, especially in the area where we are is full of alberghi.I the first two and three are complete, turn in an alley that leads the sign and acknowledge the hotel hotel where we asked the previous evening: the first before us and L'HOTEL CENTRAL PALACE (see the lonely planet) and we try our surprise was a room with a bath can also see the first to accept it and called 205 Dh.
Immediately and stop the run to free up room and change all'HARTI hotel.
You pay on a daily basis in advance, I read the story of a boy trusting of others and not asking for the receipt of money paid two times the same figure, we did not attempt to ask us and we run the risk, hopefully good.
The room we like, duh, it is larger than that of H dell'Ibis only difference that is not air conditioned, but has a nice fan that hung from the ceiling at least moves the air. And then for twenty euro cabbage want .... Is what we paid in camp in Portugal.
Rest, lunch and decide to pass the time of sunset on one of the terraces are on the edge of the square.
Ce ne andiamo un po 'a stroll with the nose upwards and eventually decide that the best is the one nearest Terrasse Grand Café Glacier.
Go and take tea, are placed right next to the parapet facing the Medina, and so start enjoying the view by making pictures and filming completely undisturbed.
In our eyes, the square is transformed by huge circus becomes noisy in the center a large banquet room where you light the grill or stove top with boiling oil for frying.
On both sides there are rows of carriages turned into fast-food-based lumachine where you can eat comfortably seated on a stool.
It seems that there is fog, but it is only the smoke of the kitchens and furniture as it is dark is light thousands of lamps that make the place seem like a huge Christmas tree smoky and noisy.
Go there and throw in the souk in the evening but walk freely and impossible, it was pressed on all sides and even though I do not seem there are security problems, is somewhat 'annoying.

VISITANDO MARRAKECH

SUNDAY 14/08/2005

We wake up a little 'sticky, the air conditioning has nothing to do with a fan hung from the ceiling. We are happy of our choice: go and do literal twenty steps and we are already in place, we are in, we live for a few days in the heart of MARRAKECH and did not need to Taxi, we are already in the center.
Pay at the hotel at night, since night you pay per night in advance and even if they do not give us no receipt of payment we decide to trust.
We decide to have breakfast in one of Cafè listed by the Toubkal lonely but even though it seems from a distance one can understand only when we are inside and there are two Coffee contend that the customers, we are finished in the left and is not logically the Tuobkal for breakfast have a fixed menu 15Dh to your head and then choose whether to bread and honey butter, croassante, omelettes or crepes in addition to orange juice and coffee or tea.
Eat and then spend the morning in the culture.

Always walk requesting information look at that side of town to escape a passing taxi and see the walls of the El-Badi Palace, where the storks nest there (we are fortunate over the nest there are three storks, after photos of Rite continue the walk and we are fascinated by their stores of spices with colorful mountains and we are now WILLINHOLLY by a shopkeeper who wants to and all costs that takes in hand a kind of iguana but I repeatedly say no to me but I accept a photo with a tartarughina in the palm of my hand. so I would like to buy one, ask the price, only 50DH (5 euros), but I think it is illegal paste them in Italy. For it pleased buy 50 grams of a mixture of 35 spices Moroccan costing Dh 1 per gram ( often the prices are so low that we forget to bargain and pay the full price) walked about fifteen minutes we arrive to the Palace Museum and EL-BAHIA input Dh 10.
The palace is still the residence of the royal family or those who care so it is not open to 100% is still good to get an idea of the style Moresque although to be honest after seeing the Alambra Granada in Spain to the Today it seems poor in decoration, decorations, gardens and water features .. But it deserves to be judged yourself.
Vicinissimo follow the signs hung on the walls is the most important museum DAR-SI-SAID,
entry costs 20 Dr every person is given two tickets from Dh 10, which are both now withdrawn just entering the first room, (because we give two instead of one will remain an unsolved mystery in my mind). The museum contains doors, musical instruments, objects, women, guns equipment used to make babbucce and others dating back to centuries past.
Unfortunately, a sign at the entrance warns us that the two upper floors to the best of the guides are closed for business.
During our visit we are approached by an attendant who invites us to climb upstairs without thinking twice acettiamo.La room is wonderful and the most beautiful the ceiling is done entirely by artisans on the ground and the cedar that was worked and applied to the dowel to dowel soffitto.Ci also gives permission to film and photograph, even forcing me to climb on a chair (sorry for the vulgar definition) or rather a throne where he sat his wife on the day of matrimonio.Io are very embarrassed and that is the chair of the fifteenth century, I can not wait to scendere.Le photos are proof! of course let out a tip for the attendant for his permission to visit the rooms closed ... we understand that we are not the only privileged but that is a practice to get a little money.

Move back in front of a HAMMAM that seems very clean, we enter immediately upon request informazioni.Anche the atmosphere is very nice and especially clean then we look at a price.
There are several types of treatments but we decide to do a treatment on pensierino almost complete (Gommage, sauna.savonage, massage etc.) at the price of a head 270Dh; certainly many local hammam is paid much less but we did not want to spoil the holiday with a bad experience and doing more in comparison with a similar treatment in Australia the price does not seem so exaggerated. We decide to do so on the last day before leaving.

Begins to warm as it is already noon and since we have a hotel downtown for a while we decide to freshen up before lunch.
The prices of the restaurants are very similar to those inside the souk, therefore, we decide to eat in those on the side of the square offering a more decent and as tables that give the illusion of being cleaner, one thing is certain ... they are always full and the food is fresh.
We go where we had breakfast this morning but we focus on the right side Toubkal also marked on the lonely planet. Eat again cuos cuos pulses with a 'spicy and very good fries, Diego eating a lamb steak and chips at the end there and a good drink the mint, in whole spend 57 Dh.
We head to an internet point (there are everywhere) and send an e-mail with some photos to our amici.Paghiamo 8 Dh for one hour of connection.
We close in a little room and look to the afternoon heat steps (repeat excellent solution Palace Hotel Central) .. I decided to go out to book the bus Soprantours (we read that the guide is the best) for the day trip to ESSAOUIRA and the train to return to Tangier on Friday notte.Non we can do both: first bus is full for both Monday and Tuesday, that warning for everyone: if you decide to do a certain route and you know what date the do not want to wait until the last minute to book. With regard to train up their booking 5 days before departure and logically now missing 6, we must return tomorrow ...
Gathered outside the station, the first driver that has accompanied us in search of the hotel and we are happy to greet meeting, brings us to the second bus station as the CTM (the guide says that this is the best and most reliable in Morocco) for Fortunately they are full for tomorrow Monday but still have room for the day Tuesday, after, book a return trip (departure at 08:30 return at 17:00, time for about 3 hours journey) pay in full for 240 Dh.Taxi again to enter the square and in the suk decided to shop but we are not really in the mood, we are a bit stressed by all that you say come, comes looking, you're Spanish? Where are you from? What are you looking for? That between us, we are trying everything and anything, anything that affects our attention ... a lamp of leather or cloth to cover the couch, we see a beautiful (3mt for 2mt) on the hue of blue-blue .. we see that the turning same cloth is more of a convenience store (if you grant me the word) .. hours we will see if we leave money on the deal said last price Dh 300. Tonight not buy anything except for 2 tablespoons soup typical of the place of wooden Dh 0.50 each and two bags of dried mint tea for Dh 15 each. Every time you turn in suk never fail to return to the place since the last time, every time emerge in a new place, in a different place ... I think this is really great and huge huge market marocchino.Una thing that strikes me is that both the square and souks are perennially full and most people who attend are not tourists but I look around you can tell that 80% are Arabs, Moroccans themselves do not know but they are people who may be on vacation or has returned from the country where he works to regain the family is ... of European tourists are there but we are not giving us a life to the whole mass of people who populate the suk and piazza.Posso assure you that the evening seems that all the people of the world lies in MARRAKECH so it becomes impossible to walk or simply choose the direction ... Just follow the stream and go on. Although sometimes one is literally pressed among strangers, most Moroccan or Arab, we have never experienced the sensation of fear or fear that something will happen, sometimes we emerge in places where we were the only Western and even in this case Part ask to buy something there is nothing ever happened.
While we pass before we return to the Sahara, come and ask of movement for two days in the desert.
A girl smiling we all begin to explain to three and when we realize that we are not interested curls the nose and tersely tells us that is equal to Ouarzazate and then goes on to ZAGORA where the desert is so sandy but quite flat instead Merzouga where there are very alte.Ci dunes suggests that the more you pay is less but we start from a minimum of 650Dh.
When we say that we think practically ignores us and goes away ... what fun!
Diego Kebab eat in a restaurant (great word) almost opposite the chips with a 20 Dh .. I come back from BARI'S PIZZA ... I take my usual margherita 25 Dh.
Arrived at the hotel we see that in front of the reception there is a bulletin board with the programs of those trips that proposes the Sahara, but at a price minore.Ci advised by the lady who runs the hotel and in the end we decide to do it with their programming Wednesday-Thursday.
There we also agreed that for the night we spend in the desert we take your luggage in storage and our return we can have our room to go last night to Mrk
For the excursion does not want any payment (but strange!) And put our names on a calendar .. this is done!

MONDAY 15/08/2005

The hotel is very quiet inside, there is almost absolute silence interrupted here and there by the singing of birds and a few tourists ... It sleeps well ....
After a shower we head to energizing Toubkal where we do a mega breakfast (delicious mint tea, orange juice, pancakes with honey and a croissant) to pay 14 head Dh.
The morning is devoted to the costs, suk go quiet in the trading and begin to negotiate on their price is almost matter of life and death: for example, for the first babbuccie I look and I see that I can pleasure and then ask the price, if it's worth it I can choose the color and then try them, for them not; choose the first, the try and then only in the last place to pull you on price. I have yet to understand what we need to be low, certainly you must have very clear what you want to spend, stay low and then climb up to the price agreed in our head and then from there you do not move if he does not give passes to another but usually let us, if we start from a ridiculous price too low not even begin to contract and close on the speech.
The morning is best because you stress less while the evening you can not move nearly so much stress because you see their face and a good price even if it does not interests you.
We buy the traditional Moroccan babbuccie hang on the wall of Dh 100, where three first morning I paid a shirt today and I 120Dh Diego we have more awake and buy two for the price of DH 110 ... up to what you can get off? It depends on you, your talent, time and desire.
For two other pairs of babbuccie from a guy who speaks a po'italiano and pay 210 DH entrambe.Siamo looking for a lamp in your living room but put her in our dreams is a bit 'not possible, many will offer to paint the moment of the two colors that we want but shot too low a price and still we could not buy it.
We buy a small lamp to give the type by hand and start 240Dh bargaining Diego is sure to have seen around 40 dh and immediately shoot 40, he explains that skin is not camel and goat and that is more resistant and more valuable and asks what we are willing to pay .. Diego does not move from the initial 40 for at least another three or four times .. Incredibile the end he accepts and buy for 40 Dh.
So now we have confidence that with the Souk Diego takes a little fun of the merchants, when we pass in front of their shops and insistently ask us which side of we, Diego Stockholm and answered if we ask whether it is north or south of the says "the north, far north"
The bad thing is that the souk seem never to end and then at some point you are outside and most are unable to return because there is no longer a door and then walk under the sun for a while 'till they find another ingresso.Tutto calm both outside and inside, no fear.
Even shopping at the end to end we are tired and we no longer have the energy needed to contract, we seek refuge in hotels.

Take two take-away pizzas from BARI'S PIZZA 50Dh.
Nap at the hotel. Diego and leave you a sandwich with sausage prepared by a guy with a small grill on the corner of the street still, if you do not piglia means nothing now that there is no danger.
Today I want to just give me a romantic ride in a horse around the city walls. Puntiamo the first and begin to tackle, we come up to 100dh but not more schioda. Then we say that we think and move on to the next call that an exaggeration, however, not moving a millimeter (that they agree?) Then we come back from that ridendosela us up and makes us take a trip but to me stench of the trash bin because only a little turn 'around the walls without seeing anything interesting.
Usual walk in the square and the souk Bolgia and then to bed early, busy day tomorrow ...

ESSAOUIRA

TUESDAY 16/08/2005

08:30 Bus to Essouira for arrival at 11.30 with a stop of 15 min for tea or go to the bathroom.
We arrived pleasantly affected by the temperature, there will be no more than 25 degrees ... we were finally tired of the heat of Mrk. We are moving towards the center, all the houses are white and blue seems to be in Greece if it were not for the internal organs exposed outside the shops of butchers.
We enter the gates of the city and there is a souk different from that of Mrk airy, off without too much crowd.
Walk quietly watching some stand there with no obligations to deal with things we do not care about. Fulminates come from a workshop that exposes lamps leather precisely what we seek ... we realize that here are the best finishes and are also somewhat 'not (after which we will also smell a lot less! Always smell the leather before comprarlo) We see, contracts, and we choose to give a foretaste boy because she keeps it until tonight (not that we can go around all day with a light of almost 2 meters ...)
Ricominciamo the walk quietly and Portuguese arrived on the walls where we do some photos, later we also bought a Slip Covers in "Silk Plant" we already stick a mrk pagandolo course not (we understand that in trading also applies to cry poverty, telling the ns unfortunate adventure with the car and sviolinare widely merchant and merchandise).
More burdened we continue our walk and arrive at the port where before we meet groups of fishermen who cut the fish and mending nets on the old walls, then there is the tower over a group of kids who compete in diving from a pier and then issarsi on moored boats, we are a little 'look, the usual rite of photos and then go beyond.
Finally arrive where the fishermen sell their fish: we are the only tourists in the midst of this pandemonium of shouts and warnings accompanying the vendita.Ci do buy a ride, give a peek at sharks and moray eels and then we go to lunch.
Incorporated in the famous fish restaurants essauira: small clubs with large common tables where you choose the fish that eat (sometimes still alive in the case of crustaceans) and then you cook on a large grid. I take a little while cuttlefish Diego to pick a crab (a big crab with hairy legs) which is quite an impression.
Expect to our table elbow to elbow with strangers and perfect when it arrives on our plate We enjoyed salad with coca bread and water all included in the price of course is that although there is a bargain list. We have paid 200Dh but I think we could have done better.
While strolling the streets we come across a nice run by French creperie, a tip: if you stop past, the crepes are fantastic.
Now it is time to return to the bus station, we take our lamp wrapped in perfectly ready for removal. CTM to make us pay a little extra for loading bulky and give us a receipt for ritirala to our arrival.
Beautiful and cool day but now back at home just to make the bags and rest ... we would expect the desert.
Once in the hotel give us the pit for the excursion of two days saying that we were alone and that only two people not to do anything ... Sgrunt! They could warn us first!
Then run by the agency schifosetta Sahara: fortunately there are already two couples and then there place but instead of us to pay 650 ... 700 ... brutt acc .... mann ... but we are too baked to quarrel with one that does not We even listen.
Let's go back to the hotel and pay in advance receive a room for our return and we agree to leave your luggage in their storage, of course free!
Dinner in a hole behind the main streets and race to nanna.

THE ZAGORA DESERT

WEDNESDAY 17/08/2005
Alarm clock at 6:30 and close the baggage we bring them to the depot on the ground floor of the hotel.
We stop to buy some cake in a bakery and we arrive with our backpacks ready for these to the desert. There's a lot of people but we understand that many are there for the trip to merzouga three days. There is a big bus and loads them almost all of us and we are a French couple to wait. Finally we come to a Land Rover Paris-Dakar model which has already taken on board the other pair italiana.Con surprise our fellow travelers at the time of the balance are also found them the parcel increased 50Dh to head (more than list price) so that at the end as we pay ... as we say, sore joint ....
Finally, each 2 hours doing a break in a bar that our driver, Moustafa, and knows where every time disappears and returns with a big Narghile in hand (we hope that you only smoke flavored tobacco!)
We begin the climb, we did not know who to go to the desert we had to pass the step of Tichka to 2260 m and where it can begin at any moment of the season pioggie.La road is a typical mountain road and every so often we stop to rest time and we are besieged by people who want to sell us geode, some beautiful, others clearly false (I have never seen a geode natural ruby red), or have us make them different animals, of course Diego agrees to be put on him two iguanas and to make a photos then paying the Bedouin 5DH for disturbing.

At some point Moustafa turning off the main road in a road ... no, not a road, we go practically in the middle of the desert in off-piste!
I who are sitting in front and already I do not feel too alive in the form as a conspiracy and that Diego is sitting at the bottom as he enjoys a Gardaland. Finally reappeared the road and shortly after, with the stomach turned like a sock, we arrived at our first stop: a Kasbah fortress on the banks of a river in the dry desert.
We stop and we are free to girarcela at will, this time an hour.
Accepted the invitation of a child of nine years of driving us from having contracted price dh 11 and begin to climb through the narrow streets of the city
It 'very beautiful and evocative, all in earth and mud mixed with straw, I think as a face-to-stand after so many years. As we accompany our guide tells us that often revolve around film also important like the gladiator, Samson and Dalila and other colossal where the inhabitants of the country are hired as extras.
The tour and time to our disposal is finished so we return to the machine giving Dh 11 for a tip to the small driving, there is tenderness when he asks us if we have a pair of closed shoes gift, but unfortunately we are only equipped to stay overnight in desert, and then we have nothing superfluous.

Our journey continues with a pause to Ouarzazate for lunch, where we follow the advice of Moustafa in the restaurant where we relieves 200dh of two fixed menus not exceptional.
Start at 17:30 and arrive in ZAGORA, time has changed .. speriamo bene.
Lead us to a hotel we can freshen up, go to the bathroom and change for the next trip that will take place by camel in the desert.
While there are locked in a storm of sand (what luck!) And everyone says that is normal in qs period ... but it will be the right time to do what we are going to do?
Diego is from a merchant across the street to buy the shawl, those who use the Bedouins to protect the face from sand. The type began to shoot at absurd prices Diego tells him that if they want to take advantage of us because we need it and we do not know how ... .. Indeed, nell'onore hit! Lends them, just come back tomorrow and take a look at his shop.
At last part, but now it is dark, there Moustafa salutes him sleep in the house of a friend and he gives us in the hands of our two Bedouin guides who tell us that we are behind schedule and we're due to arrive at sunset an hour ago.
But who knew us, mica is our fault!
And we are just left the country begins to rain
How ????? Rains in the desert? But we are living in a paradox!
But not sure we will stay for two drops even if our fellow Italians are starting to put some doubt.
Ancora un po 'di strada between distant thunder and lightning arvisaglie (arrive around mid-term), begins when a real shower, I could call the flood, and the camels stop, the Italian girl is terrified of any and all murderers lightning, including guides, we do not know what to do.
Spiove but finally do? go forward or backwards? pay at the hotel one night and start afresh tomorrow to return home or go ahead and sleep in the tent that we paid tomorrow to see the sunrise in the desert and then restart.
As good tirchiacci not throw away the money we decide to go ahead ...
Meanwhile arrives Moustafa which was called by phone by one of the guides and offers to accompany all'accampamento jeep, we accept the move girls and three men to choose camel pale moonlight with the risk of taking a shower too if the sky now seems calmer.
Arrive in camp our French travel company is refusing to enter the tent, which besides being full of sand not sure smells chanel n5 .... But since we are soaked we must necessarily enter and change ... .. our Arrivano omit and the guides will prepare dinner ..

We carry a large tajine chicken with vegetables, of course dishes like without them, and dinner together, drawing from the same plate, in the end bring us a beautiful sliced melon for dessert.
After many adventures it's time to go to sleep, I really would have dreamed of spending the night "a la belle etoiles" but the cloudy sky still does not allow it.
Sleep together under the same tent.
So I use on my first mattress stretching over a plaid that I brought from home, inflating my inflatable pillow, lying clothed, I cover with my other throws.
Diego spaparanza you on your mattress, take a big cushion of wool that have given us the Bedouin and is covered with one of their blankets, 5mn after removing the jeans it was too hot ... and this is beginning to russare.Raccontare particular does not make sure the idea of how they are covered, are perhaps in the tent for months, used by everyone and even the camels saw that stinks, but Diego does not make a piega.Le other couples are arranged with a their personal linen, others only with a towel by the sea and discovered sleeping all night so as not to touch anything.
Good night

RETURN TO MARRAKECH

THURSDAY 18/08/2005

Diego, I had realized that if we had woken up early to see the dawn, sleep and to leave to film the sun as if it would be seen more easily tardi.Io as usual I wake up before everyone and start taking pictures of everyone, unfortunately Heaven is nuvooloso and I can not see the sun rise ... and I remember how the sand once a casa.
But the time for breakfast and everyone wakes up at 6 we are around the low table placed outside where we serve tea, bread, butter and jam.
Now almost ready and we start to wake up the camel back (in the morning would be otherwise too hot for us). The sky is still not very clear, there is a lot of fog here and there and banks of clouds, but overall it seems pretty reliable.
An hour and a half we arrive at the camel that we left last night, we tip Bedouin guides (among others have told us that should never be more than ZAGORA), returned the shawl to the merchant and start with our jeep.
The journey is quiet, we are all cooked, Diego is able to sleep despite being in the place in the most inconvenient jeep.Mentre I am in the best place since I have the excuse that I suffer the car ... so I am in front beside the driver.
We stop in Ouarzazate for lunch, we make a tour through the narrow streets of the old town and then we are ready to go for the climb of Col du Tichka.
As we go we see the time change, the clouds drop more and more and we have the feeling that something else could happen.
Past the side began a shower for those who rarely forget. To make things worse is that the road is downhill and then you're turning into a stream on which we travel. At a bend we find ourselves in the middle of the road a large boulder that has just fallen, but Moustafa discard it with dexterity.
More most descend the river on which we travel is especially thickens and brings with it the soil so that it becomes all red. Here and there are cars still unable to move some depressions where water would reach the engine, but fortunately we are well equipped with our land Rover.
The windshield wipers struggle to keep the windscreen clean and rain-red waves arriving from the street.
We arrive at a point where the channel that should go under the road is above overflow and carrying away half guard-rail now come to some legs of kids that make us a sign to stop. Moustafa, however, clearly aware of the capabilities of jeeep, decided to pass the same ... moments of panic, the French faints at moments, the car in the midst of so much water receives a jolt, but in the end go unharmed.
Now there just over an hour to Mrk, this adventure is gone.
We arrived at our hotel, hoping that there are still bags and the room already paid. Everything ok, we can finally make us a shower.

COMING BACK HOME

FRIDAY 19/08/2005

We wake up and destroyed parts of the body that we are bad because of too many camels and the hours spent in JEPP.
For the eight in the morning we have to make breakfast and coffee TUOKbal spend the usual 28 Dh and we can not even manage to eat everything that is included in the menu, most believe in saying that their tea with mint is one of the best in the area .
Devote almost all morning to make the latest expenditure for the last gift (this year plus we spent a little 'too but the attractiveness of the souk to buy).
Having bought a linen embroidered blouse finished well for 80 Dh continue our tour of the souks and we are approached by a guy who tells us that since you bought the store in my blouse I want to take money without wanting to visit the concieria ..
We are trusted and given that we were not able to go and see those of Fes was something that we incuriosiva.Si shows very nice and just inside the tanneries us another man called the guardian of the tanneries and it is recommended to explain everything and let us do the pictures because we were his clients. We are given a sprig of mint that help to cover the strong odor that's in tannery although I have not found unbearable.
Penalty really the men who work there, immersed up to his knees in the liquid around and sometimes in the tanks containing lime, are folded in two for the skins soak in the liquid and are covered with flies attracted to the perfume and the warm and the whole ..
Wondering what goes into that place a person's life, I think very little and then I wonder if a poor donkey has to carry all day enormous weights without even a sip of water. Those men in tanks were crying your heart and then you ask, but you may not have other aspirations for life? They can not choose something slightly better? Perhaps her father worked in a concierie and we unwittingly found inside but because of staying? Every time someone has the courage to leave everything and go and live abroad seeking a better life, others just follow the flow of current in which they are very cunning dentro.In our hypothetical guide (in hindsight the wrong call guide) catapult us into a shop of leather products where we see things are finite and different types of skin.
Without having ever thought we are negotiating for the purchase of a puff of camel leather beautiful but too expensive as the price for him .. there spring and finally to buy 350Dh has never had yardsticks of not so tell you if you could further lower the price .. to us seemed a reasonable figure by calculating the prices in Italy.
Our guide us kindly waited outside the store back towards the square, at this point we are willing to pay to thank the service received.
Man refuses decided our Dh 20 and want to start 100 (50 per person since we had a guide and had also photographed), let us not scare us even though we are the only tourists in the area and explain more than one time was taken in advance on the price and then we would have been free to accept or refuse .. so I decided see our 20dh takes và.Ripensandoci and if they believe that the type and kind original centered with anything the store where I bought the blouse but it was only a spectator who took advantage to make some 'tourists and make some money in agreement with the leather shop.
We have not had any problem we have not spent more than what we had not the right time and the more critical we have shown decided.
Maybe now I fiderei anyone who approached me but I stop a young boy asking him to accompany me in the same place where she wanted to bring tipo.E 'you are you better to choose them rather than them choosing you, perhaps behind a good c 1000 'is that bad as well as in our paese.Noi we have not had any problems even if annoys me be the kind of cascade concierie and having drunk his lies so naive, but I think it is due to the fact that in ten days in Morocco, their were very kind to tourists, you point to our money but in a clear and transparent way, offering their goods and therefore our weapons of defense and injury have decreased considerably.
We go into a hotel room and released into the custody lsciando again our luggage ... as the last thing we decided we pamper ourselves in 'hammam all'Ziani come back .. we had visited the previous day and buy the package almost completo.Esistono hammam for only Only men and women, so I Diego and also a little afraid if we separate ...
I just entered with an Italian girl and Diego is the guy with the tipa: at least we are not alone ..
Accommodate us in the changing room where you deliver their el'accappatoio slippers and towel, soap and clean all staff .. We enter into a sauna, a large room all in marble and stone with vaulted ceiling and where the light enters only through small holes from the ceiling and attached to create an environment particularly steam .. Once you switch to the scrub where a woman and you will soapy wash and then walk to where you scrub rubs to remove all the dead cells on your body, then shower and massage.
How do you last complete a form of clay or something similar for the whole body and you incelofana for about twenty minutes .. after you give a good shower and accompany you in a room with all the typical sofas where you calmly coating. .
From my point of view, everything was nice and relaxing while Diego for a little more traumatic, its from me as he described was an energizing massage done by a sumo wrestler and came out a little sore.

18:00 arrive at the station, and we put ourselves at the bivouac, we seem just gypsies!
At 20:00 the train is already here, is the sleeper, our compartment and we accommodated for the night.
Outside, the corridor passes the controller continuously to see that everything is in place.
The compartment is very nice and clean, the blankets packed and ironed and the temperature is adjustable. Later came our traveling companions, two Dutch boys who settle in the lower berth.
The trip was peaceful and sleep like children.

GOING HOME: ALICANTE - NICE

SATURDAY 20/08/2005

In berth we rested well and is something that council as the expenditure is not high when you are traveling at night in long journeys, save a night in hotel and recovered precious time.
We arrived in Tangier at 07:45, and we immediately took a taxi to the port, we knew that there was a ferry at 09:00. The taxi was large and we asked them 5 euros that we had requested to same (maybe it is a flat rate).
The ferry was a little 'late at 09:35, the trip lasted about an hour, and all normal, off with our suitcases, everything has doubled its weight, plus we have the lamp and the ceiling light in a star which makes the last trip to the parking a little 'more exhausting.
In the few meters that separate me from the parking lot for a while we both saw the anguish of large and small incidents that are the successes would have been filled not find the car or to find further damaged.
Fortunately everything went well, the car is in the same condition as when we left.
We pay ten days of parking 79 euro (if you bring the car to Morocco we would surely spend more to make the ferry and car insurance since the Italian insurance often do not cover Morocco).
Loaded all the luggage we are ready for the trip home, about 13:00.
We stop in a autogril initial and impact to the prices in Europe are not the best: take two steaks with French fries and a coke, a bottle of water and two small sandwiches we spent 23.70. Piglia There un'accidente and the comparison with the prices Moroccans is avoidable, there ate meat, potato chips, coca, and the water with about 6-7 euro in two ...
We do about 600 km passing effort with the Sierra Nevada because of the problem machhina and arrive at Alicante for about 19:15, where we spend the night in the famous Formula 1 (for a room with air conditioning are paying 29 euros).



SUNDAY 21/08/2005
Program is divided into 1100 km and arrive in our beloved Nice.
But the journey never ends, in France we find the traffic and bad weather, beginning not bear to stay more closed in and here I become a little hysterical diego forcing them to stop in Aix en province. We find we are a etaphotel a shower and go downtown for a walk and look for a restaurant.
To tell the truth, the city does not seem anything and restaurants that are not as common as in Italy or in Morocco. We eat a plate of tagliatelle carbonara (it is not so much that they eat that they do not seem so bad) and we go back to bed.


MONDAY 22/08/2005

We wake up and do a walk in town, perhaps in light of the sun is no re ... nothing special, pretty, but nothing more.
Turn the highway while we stop in a shopping center to make supplies of tea and French wine.
We arrive in Nice in the afternoon ... it is always nice even if this season is somewhat 'chaotic. We take away the whim to do a nice walk on the Promenade des Anglais to the old town, we eat a pizza on the fly and they go back to the car ... it really back home.
And already we begin to fantasize about our next trip ... ..