sep. – okt. 2023

Kasbahs, Desert and Football

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. Läs mer

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29 september 2023
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Dag 1
fredag 29 september 2023 05:57
🌙 11 °C
Höjd över havet: 207 ft
Skottland Aberdeen Airport 57.200706, -2.20217857°12’3” N 2°12’8” W
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Aberdeen Airport
29 september 2023, Skottland ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Early start to the journey. 6am flight from Aberdeen 😴
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Trixie SellarHave a great trip ☀️ 🌄🌅 ⚽️ 😎
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Dag 1
fredag 29 september 2023 13:01
☀️ 21 °C
Höjd över havet: Havsnivå
Alboran Sea 36.145856, -5.28441536°8’45” N 5°17’4” W
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Amsterdam to Casablanca
29 september 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.Läs mer
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Trixie Sellar Where are those windmills?
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ResenärNorthern Spain, looked like the great wall of windmills 🤣
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Dag 2
lördag 30 september 2023 11:04
☀️ 27 °C
Höjd över havet: 141 ft
Marocko Casablanca 33.581831, -7.6057433°34’55” N 7°36’21” W
Royal Palace
30 september 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
This is as close as I could take a photo. Walked around the outside of the walls
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Dag 2
lördag 30 september 2023 11:31
☀️ 28 °C
Höjd över havet: 167 ft
Marocko Casablanca 33.576522, -7.60468833°34’35” N 7°36’17” W
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Habbous
30 september 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 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.Läs mer
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Trixie Sellar What a variety of colour, must be some smells!
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Dag 2
lördag 30 september 2023 13:58
☀️ 29 °C
Höjd över havet: 69 ft
Marocko Bassin du Tourisme 33.598792, -7.61664833°35’56” N 7°36’60” W
Casablanca Medina
30 september 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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Dag 2
lördag 30 september 2023 16:48
☀️ 27 °C
Höjd över havet: 108 ft
Marocko Hassan II Mosque 33.608261, -7.63270333°36’30” N 7°37’58” W
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Hassan II Mosque
30 september 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 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.Läs mer
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Trixie Sellar Wow how tall is that?
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Dag 3
söndag 1 oktober 2023 11:40
☀️ 26 °C
Höjd över havet: 62 ft
Marocko Bassin du Tourisme 33.602147, -7.62042833°36’8” N 7°37’14” W
Medina
1 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 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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Dag 3
söndag 1 oktober 2023 12:18
☀️ 25 °C
Höjd över havet: 79 ft
Marocko Dar el Beida Light 33.610432, -7.65459233°36’38” N 7°39’17” W
El Hank Lighthouse
1 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 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.Läs mer
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Dag 4
måndag 2 oktober 2023 12:02
⛅ 32 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 243 ft
Marocko Oued Lmiyyet 34.073589, -5.55361134°4’25” N 5°33’13” W
Volubilis Roman City
2 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 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.Läs mer
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Dag 4
måndag 2 oktober 2023 12:30
⛅ 32 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 247 ft
Marocko Volubilis 34.073058, -5.55499234°4’23” N 5°33’18” W
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Volubilis Roman City
2 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Trixie Sellar Is that olive trees?
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Dag 4
måndag 2 oktober 2023 16:52
⛅ 36 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 325 ft
Marocko Oued Aïn Chkef 34.034658, -5.01619334°2’5” N 5°0’58” W
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Fes
2 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
On our way from Volubilis to Fes we enter the mid Atlas mountains, a series of ripples, up and down between 800 ft and 1400 ft elevation.
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Trixie Sellar That looks like a painting 😮
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Dag 4
måndag 2 oktober 2023 19:57
🌙 30 °C
Höjd över havet: 935 ft
Marocko Oued Lmaleh 34.061109, -4.94868834°3’40” N 4°56’55” W
Evening meal
2 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
We had our evening meal at this magnificent venue, Palais la Medina. It was covered in amazing tiled patterns, stucco mouldings and had a great view of the Medina from the roof terrace.
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Dag 4
måndag 2 oktober 2023 23:05
☁️ 25 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 007 ft
Marocko Oued Boufakrane 34.058899, -4.97260134°3’32” N 4°58’21” W
Evening Meal
2 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
During the meal we were entertained by drummers, belly dancers and a magician. The evening ended bizarrely with what we think was a wedding ceremony for some people from another group.
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Dag 5
tisdag 3 oktober 2023 09:18
⛅ 24 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 280 ft
Marocko Oued Mariz 34.052761, -4.99343934°3’10” N 4°59’36” W
Royal Palace
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
After breakfast we visited the main entrance to the Royal Palace in Fes.
In the 1960s King Hassan II reoriented the entrance of the palace complex from the Old Mechouar in the north to a new southern approach facing the modern Ville Nouvelle ("New City") of Fes. A new grand square, Place des Alaouites (''Alawi Square'), was laid out and new ornate gates to the palace were built between 1969 and 1971. Although no longer the royal palace of the capital, the main palace complex in Fes is still regularly used by the King of Morocco today. The palace is thus not open to the publicLäs mer
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Meehee KempAmazing photos - we’re watching Celebrity Race around The World last night, and they were in Fez
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Meehee KempWhat’s a Medina?
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Dag 5
tisdag 3 oktober 2023 10:32
⛅ 27 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 276 ft
Marocko Oued Boufakrane 34.055539, -4.96707834°3’20” N 4°58’1” W
Medina viewpoint
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
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tisdag 3 oktober 2023 10:57
⛅ 28 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 276 ft
Marocko Oued Boufakrane 34.055539, -4.96707834°3’20” N 4°58’1” W
Pottery Workshop
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Later we visited a pottery workshop where we got guided around the workshop, watching the process of producing tiled mini fountains, tiled tables and pottery. The skills for making the small tiled music pieces was great to watch. We also see the painting of pottery prior to perusing the showroom.Läs mer
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Meehee KempI’m going to try that - chiselling shapes, to make a mosaic, very interesting to watch
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tisdag 3 oktober 2023 11:21
⛅ 29 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 280 ft
Marocko Oued Mariz 34.054114, -4.98996134°3’15” N 4°59’24” W
Fes Medina
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
We then visited the medina, it's the largest car free settlement in the world, housing over 200,000 people in an area of 540 acres, 9000 winding streets, all surrounded by a wall 23km long.
Founded in the 9th century, Fes reached its height in the 13th–14th centuries under the Marinids, when it replaced Marrakesh as the capital of the kingdom. The urban fabric and the principal monuments in the medina (madrasas, fondouks, palaces, residences, mosques and fountains) date from this period.
Although the political capital of Morocco was transferred to Rabat in 1912, Fes has retained its status as the country's cultural and spiritual centre.Läs mer
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tisdag 3 oktober 2023 12:33
⛅ 32 °C
Höjd över havet: 981 ft
Marocko University of al-Karaouine 34.063575, -4.97311434°3’49” N 4°58’23” W
Fes Medina
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
The streets are a labyrinth of narrow alleys, some you have to go sideways to get through. All the time the locals are passing through, sometimes with handcarts or donkeys for heavy items.
The doors on a lot of the houses have a smaller door inside a bigger door. The small one for normal entering. The larger one when you want big objects or a donkey to pass through. There are 350 mosques in the Medina that are still in use today.
We spend several hours in this amazing, vibrant place.Läs mer
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tisdag 3 oktober 2023 15:08
⛅ 36 °C
Höjd över havet: 994 ft
Marocko Place Lalla Ydouna 34.064925, -4.97153634°3’54” N 4°58’18” W
The Tannery
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C
Somewhere in the middle of the Medina we come across one of the three Tannery's. We get a view from the balcony of one of the surrounding leather shops, where we see men treating and dyeing the different hides. The stench is unbearable with ammonia but we are given branches of mint to overcome it.Läs mer
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tisdag 3 oktober 2023 19:28
🌙 30 °C
Höjd över havet: 1 204 ft
Marocko Ennajjarine 34.063306, -4.98167234°3’48” N 4°58’54” W
Sunset view over the Medina
3 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
After the Medina we return to the hotel for free time. Several of us decide to get some taxis and head for a high point to see the sunset over the Medina. Struggling to flag down some taxis, one of the hotel staff helps us and we end up further down the street next to a roundabout where we eventually get the taxis. Then it's a comical race between the two taxis up to the high point. We get there just after sunset but still get fantastic views.
Afterwards we just walk into the grounds of a five star hotel looking for drinks, but after checking out it's lovely pool, the great terrace and taking a group photo we decide against buying really expensive drinks and promptly leave before we get found out 🤣.
We eventually find taxis much further down the road.Läs mer
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onsdag 4 oktober 2023 07:22
☀️ 18 °C
Höjd över havet: 3 136 ft
Marocko Sidi Abdalwahad 33.789619, -4.98695633°47’23” N 4°59’13” W
Leaving Fes
4 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Another early morning leaving to the south and immediately climbing into the mountains, peaking at 6800 feet. The countryside varies from mountains and gorges to plateaus and high desert.
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Dag 6
onsdag 4 oktober 2023 14:16
☀️ 30 °C
Höjd över havet: 3 304 ft
Marocko Zouala 31.789411, -4.23858431°47’22” N 4°14’19” W
Ziz Valley
4 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
We are diving along a flat plain when we suddenly descend into a deep gorge, this one the Ziz Valley. There's a river running through it with palm trees either side, a real oasis. On the south side are where all the buildings are located. Further in we see a lot of black coloured palm tree trunks, where a huge fire had happened the previous year. Luckily only the outside was burnt, the insides still alive.Läs mer
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Dag 6–14
4 oktober 2023 15:55 - 12 oktober 2023
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☀️ 33 °C
Höjd över havet: 2 408 ft
Marocko Er-Rissani 31.201328, -4.02696431°12’5” N 4°1’37” W
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Camel Ride
4–12 okt. 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
We arrived at our Kasbah hotel, and after resting in the pool for a couple of hours we went for a camel ride into the dunes. Fantastic colours and so quiet.
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Dag 6
onsdag 4 oktober 2023 18:28
☀️ 31 °C
Höjd över havet: 2 431 ft
Marocko Azour Zamani 31.197058, -4.0236531°11’49” N 4°1’25” W
Camel Ride and Sunset
4 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Well into the dunes we stop and climb to the highest dune, and what a view we get of the sunset.
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Trixie SellarLove the camel photos and what a sunset 🤩
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torsdag 5 oktober 2023 06:39
🌙 17 °C
Höjd över havet: 2 264 ft
Marocko Marzouga 31.0979, -4.0056631°5’52” N 4°0’20” W
Sunset at the Kasbah
5 oktober 2023, Marocko ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
We get up so early we see the fantastic sunrise over the desert. The early start is due to the jeep Safari into the desert and surroundings which a few of us are going on.
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