Warm and Sunny January

Yesterday, when I left Zurich in the morning it was minus 5 degrees, very foggy and the streets were pure ice. Switzerland really wanted to tell me to get away as soon as possible. I took the train to Basel and met Nadja on the Bus to the Euroairport. We had booked an Easyjet flight to Agadir with only handluggage. The hand luggage - thing had caused quite a tragedy & a small panic attack the night before but let‘s not get into that… In the bus we got a message from easyjet that the flight was going to be delayed 2 hours, but then at the airport we didnt read that anywhere anymore, so after 2 hours, the security and passport control and the boarding, we were sitting on the plane, ready to depart in time.
We were lucky to have a window seat, so we got to see the Atlas from above, otherwise i just read a bit and slept.
In Agadir we got picked up by Mustafa who drove us to the camp in Tamraght. The car ride was quite ehm impressive/shocking/scary - anyways he drove like crazy through the traffic, but we got to see a very pretty sunset, which deistracted us from the street and his way of driving:). When we arrived at camp they gave us dinner & all the information we needed, showed us our room and we went go sleep. Today we woke up at 7 and had breakfast on the roof terrace in the dark. It was quite cold so early in the morning so we were all wearing warm clothes. There was freshly squeezed orange juice ready for us and they had glutenfree pancakes, fruits, yogurt, nuts and honey. A perfect start of the day. We got ready quickly and made our way down to choose out surfboards, leashes and wetsuit and headed to the besch with one of the buses. At the beach it was very cold since the sun hadnt risen, especially the sand and our feet were freezing, so we put our wetsuit on and started running around to keep us warm. Eventually the warm-up started and shortly after we were ready to catch some waves. As we were walking to the water we caught the flrst rays of sun and it was just beautiful:) Nadja and I are in the same group and we had a lot of fun. The first couple of waves were gread and I was able to catch them. As time went by and i got more and more tired, also the waves got pretty bad. Therefore after about 2hrs we decided to head back to the beach, where we had lunch, sunbathed, read a bit and walked around. Luckily, thanks to the sun, it had gotten much warmer than in the morning. We walked to a little café at the beach to get a smoothie and passed by a Tajine restaurant (picture of the elder man). After we had walked back to the camp we finally got to appreciate how pretty it is by sunlight. I‘ve rarely seen such a pretty building and I love how everything is so „open“ and how green it is. We stayed on the rooftop terrace and read, talked to others and I even studied, until the sunset. After sunset we were served typical maroccan tajine for dinner, which was delicious. However, Nadja and I both still struggle a bit with all the beans and this food which is rather jard to digest.. let‘s hope we get used to it fast! After dinner we stayed at the table with some other people from camp and chatted with them. Now we decided to head to our room to get enough sleep for the day tomorrow:)Baca lagi