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Travelling Ottawa - Montreal - Casablanca
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  • El Jadida

    21 lutego 2020, Kanada ⋅ ⛅ -13 °C

    Hitch a ride with hotel staff who agrees to take us to 'Acima" which I understand is close
    by - it isn't!!
    Enjoyed trolling the shelves - by Amelou (hali basaaf- very expensive ) about $10 for a 6oz jar. ..also by some oranges - the navels are in season and wonderful.

    Taxi back to centre town the driver says no time for prayer - he asks another taxi - same
    first man re-consideres thinks he can take us on his way!! -- we stop for coffee at a shop where Mohamed and I met.....slow walk to Erics - where I have couscous and mille faille.
    Very nice food and nice environment and on the way home so all good!
    Weather remains terrific about 25c - sand beach is 'hard' and easy for walking and very
    long - Police/on horseback are out patrolling.

    Leave Saturday morning for last visit to Casablanca.
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  • Casablanca... pour la denier fois

    22 lutego 2020, Maroko ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    We arrive about noon - harrira at 'la fleur' not the best but available!

    We walk to the old medina - I can't find the vegetable market -- quite busy, We buy
    'mitts' for the hamam...and dodge groups of 'clandestine' immigrants from sub-saharan Africa who are here waiting to find a way to Europe - not loads of them (mostly male) but a bit daunting all the same.
    I do a trial walk to the boulangerie with the best 'fourrie' in Casablanca - about 8min from the hotel - all the doormen are happy to give me suggestions! I make it - ready for breakfast tomorrow!

    We eat dinner in the hotel - we like the food and choice but one restaurant is trying to set a 'certains standard' and the servers are quite 'snooty' -- almost underbearable. The style is the new deconstructed - I have tangi one night - tasty! The millefaille with amalou also
    deconstructed - not quite so impressive.

    HassanII mosque is on our list - we are late starting out but fortunately so are the tours we catch the 10qam english!! - about 20 people in our group. The Mosque never fails to impress - it is beautiful and showcase of all the best workmanship in Morocco -- we go
    from here to the ridiculous Morocco Mall - 100mad and about 20min away -

    The Mall doesn't seem nquite as 'glitz' as when I saw new and the french store AuPrimtemps is no longer here. However lots of people with 'bags' so someone is buying!
    We have a lovely lunch sittiing on the balcony looking at the Atlantic Ocean...really nice.

    Take the Casablanca Tram back to centre ville and hotel - the trip is 8mad and 13stops!!
    A little difficult to see where we should transfer but everyone very helpful - Im following Deb!

    Another dinner in hotel
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  • Casablanca encore

    24 lutego 2020, Maroko ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    Breakfast at the Passage Souimka - and 2 almond fourrie pour moi!!
    As delicious as I remember - I ask the clerk if he speaks english - his reply , very clearly
    'not very well' - lovely -

    Lunch at Venezia ice (includes ice-cream) on Zerktoni Blvd. --

    We go to Habbous..by olives and some spices - Deb some lovely Berber style earrings-we walk to my pastry shop Moulay Ismail - almond pastries not ready - return downhill for an
    avocado juice (forgot to say no sugar) / coffee -- return for pastries 1kg in 2 boxes - 170mad per kilo.

    Return to Hamam - Im surprised 2 people remember me and my name 'Valerie' how nice to see you - it's been a long time!!

    Home to hotel we are happily relaxed and ready for a quite evening - Deb says the hamam maybe her 'highlight' ..we both had gummage she an additional massage - we are both very clean, relaxed.

    ...mmm seems I've lost my beloved red-hat -- I like it and everyone I travel with likes it because they can find me!!

    February 25
    Tuesday morning - breakfast again at the patisserie and I buy 2 to bring home then we
    walk to the Central Market - although it opens at 7 - there is little activity - shops just beginning to open..we buy spices, organic (huge) dates, walnuts and navel oranges to bring home. We ask for one v.large orange to be weighted 650g!!- didnt buy it.
    Oranges are 12mad per kg...about 1.50cad so about the same price as us - we're about
    1.69
    We've also had two tastes of fresh strawberries about 8mad for 500grams - they were delicious and red all the way through!!

    Our car is ready at 1.30 off to the airport - tickets say Terminal 2 but of course we are
    at Terminal 1 - long walk - 300mad trip to airport.

    It's been lovely much as I remember and I did remember some!
    - much cleaner than I remember, including the medina
    - blue sky clear and goes for miles or kilometres!
    - food delicious
    - one squat toilet in 3weeks!!
    - people helpful and friendly and appreciative of a word or two of arabic
    Hamdalilah - thank God for a wonderful visit!
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