Kasbahs, Desert and Football

September - October 2023

A twenty day trip starting with a tour of Morocco, going into the Scotland game against Spain in Seville, a few days touring Lisbon and its countryside, before travelling north to Lille for the Scotland friendly with France. Read more

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- Sep 29, 2023, 5:57am
- 🌙 11 °C
- Altitude: 207 ft
- Scotland Aberdeen City Dyce Aberdeen Airport 57.200706, -2.20217857°12’3” N 2°12’8” W
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Aberdeen Airport
September 29, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Early start to the journey. 6am flight from Aberdeen 😴
Trixie Sellar Have a great trip ☀️ 🌄🌅 ⚽️ 😎
9/30/23Reply
Trixie Sellar Wow not often you are up before the sun 😁
9/30/23Reply
Traveler 😴 only on holidays
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- Sep 29, 2023, 1:01pm
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Alboran Sea 36.145856, -5.28441536°8’45” N 5°17’4” W
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Amsterdam to Casablanca
September 29, 2023, Alboran Sea ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Wonderful flight down through France and Spain crossing the Mediterranean just east of Gibraltar, allowing great views of it and the Straits of Gibraltar. I even saw Ceuta the Spanish port city in North Africa.Read more
Trixie Sellar Where are those windmills?
9/30/23Reply
Traveler Northern Spain, looked like the great wall of windmills 🤣
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- Sep 30, 2023, 11:04am
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 141 ft
- Morocco Casablanca 33.581831, -7.6057433°34’55” N 7°36’21” W
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Royal Palace
September 30, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
This is as close as I could take a photo. Walked around the outside of the walls
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- Sep 30, 2023, 11:31am
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 167 ft
- Morocco Casablanca 33.576522, -7.60468833°34’35” N 7°36’17” W
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Day 2
Habbous
September 30, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
This is not just a market, it's a district where every little street is a different market. Spices, meat, clothes, leather, mopeds and so much more. The hustle and bustle and smells are amazing, apart from the live poultry.Read more
Trixie Sellar What a variety of colour, must be some smells!
10/1/23Reply
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- Sep 30, 2023, 1:58pm
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 69 ft
- Morocco Casablanca Bassin du Tourisme 33.598792, -7.61664833°35’56” N 7°36’60” W
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Casablanca Medina
September 30, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
After stopping for a refreshing mint tea or two it was off to join a small walking tour of the Medina. This is the oldest part of Casablanca.
At different times it has been governed by Berber, Roman, Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, and Moroccan regimes. The original Berber name, Anfa (“hill” in English), was in use by the locals until the French occupied Morocco in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.
It's a maze of narrow wee streets.Read more
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- Sep 30, 2023, 4:48pm
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 108 ft
- Morocco Casablanca El Hank Hassan II Mosque 33.608261, -7.63270333°36’30” N 7°37’58” W
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Hassan II Mosque
September 30, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After the Medina we walked along the promenade to the massive Hassan II Mosque. When built in it was the third largest mosque in the world, and in the largest functioning mosque in Africa. Its minaret is 210m tall. On the 29th day of Ramadan over 100,000 pray in the huge outside area and 25,000 inside. Unfortunately you need to join a special tour to get inside.Read more
Trixie Sellar 😮
10/1/23Reply
Trixie Sellar Wow how tall is that?
10/1/23Reply
Traveler 690 feet 😜
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- Oct 1, 2023, 11:40am
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 62 ft
- Morocco Casablanca Bassin du Tourisme 33.602147, -7.62042833°36’8” N 7°37’14” W
Day 3
Medina
October 1, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Decided to have another walk through the Medina having a good look at it. A bit misty today. Came out near the Hassan II Mosque, but it was closed.
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- Oct 1, 2023, 12:18pm
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 79 ft
- Morocco Casablanca El Hank Dar el Beida Light 33.610432, -7.65459233°36’38” N 7°39’17” W
Day 3
El Hank Lighthouse
October 1, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Decided to walk along the Corniche, the modern promenade, to the El Hank lighthouse. It was a good long walk passing many anglers, including one fishing from a tyre tube. Looked a bit dodgy 😳. By the time I returned along the Corniche the mist had come in covering the mosque.Read more
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- Oct 2, 2023, 12:02pm
- ⛅ 32 °C
- Altitude: 1,243 ft
- Morocco Meknes Douar Sidi Hemmam Oued Lmiyyet 34.073589, -5.55361134°4’25” N 5°33’13” W
Day 4
Volubilis Roman City
October 2, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Met up with the tour group for a meal last night then headed north today at 8am.
After a few hours we stopped for a tour of the Roman city of Volubilis.
The Mauritanian capital, founded in the 3rd century B.C., became an important outpost of the Roman Empire and was graced with many fine buildings. Extensive remains of these survive in the archaeological site, located in a fertile agricultural area. Volubilis was later briefly to become the capital of Idris I, founder of the Idrisid dynasty, who is buried at nearby Moulay Idris.Read more
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- Oct 2, 2023, 12:30pm
- ⛅ 32 °C
- Altitude: 1,247 ft
- Morocco Meknes Bled Ahmed Essoussi Volubilis 34.073058, -5.55499234°4’23” N 5°33’18” W
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Volubilis Roman City
October 2, 2023 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Trixie Sellar Is that olive trees?
10/3/23Reply
Traveler I think so
10/4/23Reply
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