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- Feb 7, 2020, 3:06pm
- ☀️ 4 °C
- Altitude: 539 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt Viktualienmarkt 48.136607, 11.57708548°8’12” N 11°34’38” E
Day 1
SNOW!
February 7, 2020 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
--- the snow if falling and has been falling -- will we get out of Montreal?
Local flights cancelled but International still going...train at 11.20 then Dorval
flight 8.30 lots of time for weather to improve!!Read more
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- Feb 9, 2020, 9:09pm
- 🌙 12 °C
- Altitude: 337 m
- Morocco Fès-Meknès Douar Laayadna Koudiat Lehyout 34.44927, -5.0113734°26’57” N 5°0’41” W
Day 3
Casablanca-Fez
February 9, 2020 in Morocco ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Casablanca - late arrival. Surprise to us your starts immediately and we drive through several sections of Casablance ...Californie, Habbous, Serb Sultan and then the centre and ended at the Hassan II mosque. Absolutely stereotypical Moroccan day sun/blue sky..
Stop for a juice drink ..i had avocado and 3 corned De gazelle pastries.
Arrive hotel..small nap cross street to one of my favouriecoffee shops bit of a walk around - I am pleased with how much I remember back to hotel for included dinner..for me dish, tasty bed.Read more
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- Feb 9, 2020, 9:25pm
- ☁️ 3 °C
- Altitude: 539 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt Viktualienmarkt 48.136607, 11.57708548°8’12” N 11°34’38” E
Day 3
Casablanca Fez
February 9, 2020 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
Can you be ready for 9.30yes of course. Sunday morning....phone rings Debbie answers hangs up says I have 10 to10 ..i respond so do I what time is it? She says 10 to 10 we agreed to meet the guide for 9.30 oops! We are in fast gear grab a snack to go and meet the guide for 10.15!!! Apologies accepted whew! We are the only ones on the tour! Off we go to Rabat..
The tomb of Mohammed V and Hassan II the old Kasbah and the kings Rabat palace -- from several 100ft away
Lunch in Sale looking at the yacht mooring..
Sun, blue sky and we are off to Fez.
Trip to Fez enjoyable LOTS of olive groves. Countryside is green. Some early planting. Into Fez
About 6pm a coffee and learn coffee casse in Arabic is casa Marisa?? Send choice.
Ordinary dinner ..buffet with many German tourists.Read more
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- Feb 10, 2020, 6:09pm
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 485 m
- Morocco Fès-Meknès Douar Zaaymat Hajer el Agab 34.259638, -4.99810134°15’35” N 4°59’53” W
Day 4
FEZ
February 10, 2020 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
9.30 we start by visiting the Fez palace gates ..bronze
Lovely and huge ..his palace grounds are approximately 85 hectares...originally built in 13 century.
Off to a lookout stop ..then the pottery and tile place..tagine for 2 is about 120$. Beautiful colours.
Now we are in the medina. walking walking ..my feet are tired, visit a carpetcoop colours and craft..womanship is fabulous. Another stop where they weave agave silk ..yes from agave cactus! Scarves are v soft with beautiful colours about 3$cad.
Have heard of "clock cafe"..must go to old city which is newer than Medina...also dirtier more "ordinary" Tues what another travel story for me it's closed for renovations!
End up in "regular" place couscous with chicken but delicious fresh strawberries bought at 1/2 kg for 8mad=1$cad!
We've walked miles up and down stairs ..also took in the tanneries of Fez..now take my feet home! Back to hotel l'Escale.Read more
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- Feb 11, 2020, 8:59pm
- ⛅ 2 °C
- Altitude: 539 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt Viktualienmarkt 48.136607, 11.57708548°8’12” N 11°34’38” E
Day 5
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February 11, 2020 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
Enjoy great baguette and Harira soup for breakfast..today coffee is hot-yeah!
Off to Meknes ..stopping enroute at Volubulis..Romans 250BC about 20,000
People. Mosaics are still very clear..house outlines,
Baths ..most enjoyable ..pass by town of Moulay I email.. name of my favourite pastry shop in Casablanca...onto Meknes..tagine lamb/with prunes
Oranges/strawberries for dessert - mint tea..spend an hour or so in souk ..lots of shoes for sale!
Find a coffee shop of course only male clients we try to sit outside but cannot ..take first table inside...coffee served in " footed" cup then waiter brings container of hot milk ..how much you like and only 7mad for nuess-nuess Cabeera!
Short cut route back to Fez.
Dinner we are offered creme caramel for dessert we had that last night so ask if there is a choice..."seasonal" fruit ..thinking of those wonderful strawberries I say "yes then to Deb as long as itsnotRead more
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- Feb 12, 2020, 10:22am
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 474 m
- Morocco Marrakesh-Safi Medina 31.629472, -7.98108431°37’46” N 7°58’52” W
Day 6
Marrakech via Ifrane
February 12, 2020 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Leave Fez 9am temp about 13c....take the National ..local ..road to Ifrane. Beautiful village which has snow Dec/Jan ..none now - coffee and -msemen!
First I've had this trip hope not the last.
Leave Ifrane about 11.30 heading for Marrakech.via the auto route. The fast highway is a v good road with tolls approx50mad for family car.
Countryside is very green "they"report not much rain ?
Pass by large fields of wheat also orchards of Apples
The ever present olives and onions which are grown in raised rock bolder rows which are hollow filled with dirt seed/starter plants covered with grass/hay and then plastic!
A few almonds with lovely pink blossoms.
Stop just outside Casablanca for lunch..at a highway stop..good..and of course nuess.nuess after the meal and Deb her cawa mareesa!
Getting be a bit of a long haul but now last leg to Marrakech. We arrive about 6pm heavy traffic...hotel far out and new ...not my style!
Buffet dinner is just ok..lovely pool is unheated.
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- Feb 13, 2020, 3:41pm
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 451 m
- Morocco Marrakesh-Safi Marrakech-Medina Marrakesh Majorelle Garden 31.641944, -8.00305631°38’31” N 8°0’11” W
Day 7
Marrakech photos
February 13, 2020 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
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- Feb 15, 2020, 9:28pm
- 🌙 14 °C
- Altitude: 15 m
- Morocco Casablanca 33.5922, -7.618433°35’32” N 7°37’6” W
Day 9
Marrakech in 2 Days
February 15, 2020 in Morocco ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
Just lost my note..have to repeat!! Ugģh

9am start to Medina ..Bahia Palace beautiful carved cedar and tile work. Head of French protectorate lived here had fireplaces instaĺled.
Sultan (before the French) had room for 4 wives 24 concubines and children! HUGE
Walk through medina visit synagogue museum..only 100? Jewish people left in Marrakech.
Lunch chicken Pastilla and fresh navels for dessert.
Onto YSL museum..quite large display of dresses most intense colors, next door Majorelle garden..with coffee shop -lemon ice with spiced coffee! ,next next door Berber museum with exceptional (+beautiful) display of women's jewellery.
Find shop "my cawa" selling spiced coffee 7 envelopes for 50mad. Individually things seem low price but somehow we are always searching for a bank. I have had lots of trouble with my bank card..never in the past but this time even my favourite Attijarawafa won't give me $$..i call Scotia bank..no help they say try another ATM I've tried..5!!
Evening we set out with guide for jama El Fnaa - Calgary stampede midway on steroids! Taste of fresh o.j. ..glass about 8oz ..4mad and benina!
Tired/sleep.
Valentines day in Marrakech ..quiet day, breakfast, read by pool ( beautiful but not heated) then into Gueliz (new town) visit Place vendome where I buy the same leather wallet I bought about 10ys ago 480 mad big reduction to 440 - I take it. Visit Jeff De Bruges who is doing a "western" trade in chocolate Valentine's!
Coffee..Deb likes coffee mareesa which we've been told is cafe casse but she keeps getting my nauss/nauss which is my coffee more like latte now we're told order mareesa forte??
Easy day home for dinner.

Saturday 10am off to Casablanca..private car Skoda/Renault..v comfortable good divided highway speed 120kph..arrive about 1pm.
Same hotel Odyssee centre in center Ville.. Harrira at leFleur..CTM for tickets..get Casa to Oulidia but cannot get Oulidia to El jadida Will wait and see the info we get in Oulidia??? Isn't travel fun!Read more
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- Feb 16, 2020, 10:00pm
- 🌙 14 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Morocco Casablanca-Settat Douar El Ghenadra 33.245, -8.4904233°14’42” N 8°29’26” W
Day 10
Marrakech - Casablanca-Oulidia
February 16, 2020 in Morocco ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
We leave Marrakech at 10 Saturday with driver Mohamed in a comfortable black Skoda of the Renault family....about 2.5 hrs later we are deli eres to the Odyssee hotel.
A stop at CTM - hoping to buy tickets for our round trip Casablanca-oulidia-el jadida- Casablanca...first step ok 85mad .(12$??) But bus from Oulidia is full. We do a walk around the block stop at a pastry shop..and for coffee..deb has changed from cawa Mareesa to Americano with à small jug of milk "on the side " which usually comes v.hot....
Sunday morning after breakfast we walk 10min down the street to CTM station. We are a small group waiting to board..i sit separate ..another window seat as the bus is not full.
We take the Auto route about 2hrs later arrive in Oulidia..the countryside is quite green and it seems some crops are sprouting.
Searching for a taxi ..someones friend in a broken down black car -- police style no door handles on inside takes us down the hill to Oulidia.

Sunday/Monday/Tuesday we are enjoying tiny Oulidia..it hasn't changed much down on the beach side. We tour l'Initial where I fell into the restaurant many years ago learning the Arabic for ice - "telsh" as staff ran for ice to relieve my hurt knee!!..lunch at Arraigne of the sea-a very unusual fish tagine--tasty and return to l'Hippicampe for coffee..they have a glass covered outdoor room which is lovely on a cool very windy day like today.
We are 2 of about 6 guests - they leave the next day sooooo!...it is cool enough for a fire which is bright/crackly!
Next day we tackle the hill to the main street..many more shops than I remember..check with CTM bus remains full lvg Oulidia...we head to Crystal Palace and share cheeseburger/fries..quite good @ 45mad (6.50)...after several attempts ..my usual approach of asking young people 16/17 as they likely have some English doesn't work here in fact no French either!! Never mind we're determined and find the local bakery 1cookie, 2 macaroons, 1 Palmier and 12 mad we have our afternoon treat.

..with no room on the bus we decide to take a "big taxi" to El Jadida...lvg with "Hassan"..we stop once to deliver oysters, once for Hassan to say 'I'll return and take you to Oulidia" and finally a 3sec stop into a hanoot for cigars then to our hotel Ibis on the beach promenade.
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- Feb 20, 2020, 9:09am
- ☀️ -14 °C
- Altitude: 68 m
- Canada Ontario The Glebe Annex Nanny Goat Hill 45.3973, -75.688345°23’50” N 75°41’18” W
Day 14
ElJadida
February 20, 2020 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ -14 °C
Ibis hotel is just as I remember - although I think the food is better.
We can see/hear the ocean from our room and our window opens - yeah!

The first afternoon we walk to the neared cafe for coffee - I learn a favourite
cafe is closed for renovations Mazagan and it was on the top floor so a terrific
view!

The next day off to the City Portuguese /cisterns - by petite taxi -- cisterns are in amazingly
good condition...we stroll around the old fortress which is still very much inhabited - many
europeans -- stop at an 'everything' shop where Deb tried her (successful)negotiating skills the asking price for a lovley Berber 'style' necklace 120mad - she countered and paid 80mad.
Walk through the Medina of ElJadida looking for a fish restaurant 'Teckquickta' ?? - classic fish restuarant with 3 large skillets bubbling with hot, hot, oil presparing frit platters (I order
one) with no language no english, no french we managed a fish lunch!!

Slow walk home we stop at Erics - pastry shop --for coffee.

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