Feb 7, 2007 - Casablanca

Salam Alekoum from (drum roll please)...Morocco! Thinking about the last three countries I traveled to, I realized something interesting: They all start with the letter "M"! I wonder if anyone has ever gone from Malaysia to Mexico and then Morocco in that order -- and in a six-week period? Maybe all this travel has gotten to me, and I'm just out of my head. If so, please excuse my ramblings. At any rate, we left off last week at the Cancun airport. From there I flew to Dallas, L.A., New York and Casablanca. If you're up for accruing some...

Sep 16, 2006 - Casablanca

Casa es la ciudad mas grande de Marruecos, el centro economico del pais. Tambien parece mas ordenada de lo normal y la costa con bares y discotecas y elevada con respecto al mar tiene un aire a la Costa Verde de Lima. Me quede con una amiga de una amiga, muy simpatica, me llevo a comer a sitios particulares de Casa. Pero lo mas importante es que me dio el dato de la mejor patisserie de Casa, donde van los locales....por supuesto tuve que ir y tambien me compre 2-3 de cada tipo de dulce que tenian. La caja me duro menos de un dia, todo...

May 19, 2006 - Casablanca

I sent the night here arriving at a hotel at one in the morning. Not as interesting as the film portrayed. Big cosmopolitan city really,only for the night. They do have a relly cool mosque in town though, the 3rd largest religious structure in the world behind Mekka and the st.Peters cathedral. Casablanca is where i first came in contact with the Moroccan BED BUG!!!!!

May 14, 2006 - Casablanca

This is a city were not much is happening for tourists in any way. A major bustling place baiscally we are just and we are just now leaving Rabat, Inge saw a doctor yesterday in the Hotel last night, and now armed with some potent medicine she seems to be feeling better. We leave Morocco with feelings of great enjoyment, loved the Sahara desert, the wonderful Kasbahs, and ofcourse our unforgettable weekend in Marrakech partying the nights away with my cousin and his friends from London!

Apr 18, 2006 - Casablanca, Morocco

After some difficulty getting a taxi driver to understand where we wanted to go we resorted to shrades "Chuga-chuga chuga-chuga choo choo", it worked and we were on our way to the train station. After booking our ticket for the next days journey we had to figure how to get the hostel that was supposedly close to the train station. A taxi driver offered to help but only spoke French so we headed off by foot, behind us the taxi driver was saying something but we didn't know what. One hundred metres down the road and the taxi man pulled up...

Feb 25, 2006 - Casablanca and the world seems friendly again

Got into Casablanca after dark so I caught a taxi to the youth hostel... the driver of which was quite friendly and took me to the actual youth hostel. Hadn't hardly eaten all day so I went out to explore for a bakery and found a fantastic one nearby. Can't believe how cheap things are here if you're not trying to live like a white anglo tourist. Really put things into perspective when after the conversion I'd paid total 10 dollars for the two night charge at the hotel in Tangiers. Felt a bit bad and am trying to find a middle path between...

Nov 9, 2005 - Things I will miss about Morocco

I will miss Chicken tajine, but I won't miss the squawking in the market place as the butcher chops of the head. I will miss the Imam calling me at 5 in the morning, but not the roosters and dogs that accompany him. I will miss the friendly "Welcome to Morocco" but not the men trying to scam money out of me. I will miss the beautiful delicately woven carpets and kilims, but not the aggressive every-trick-in-the-book carpet sellers! I will miss the pretty tiled riads and bedrooms, but not the faulty plumbing.... I will miss the cafes and...

Nov 4, 2005 - Casablanca, Morocco

If you left New York City and sailed straight across the Atlantic, you would hit Morocco, a country which also borders the Mediterranean to the north. While Morocco is Muslim, its long relationship with Europe causes it to be a congenial version of this religion. Many of the Arabs who lived in Spain for 800 years moved here when they were kicked out during the Inquisition, and then Morocco became a Portuguese colony. Most recently Morocco has been a French colony and today it is a kingdom with a parliamentary government system. While we saw...

Nov 1, 2005 - Marrakesh / Casablanca, Morocco

Tja und dann bereits schon Marrakesh. Vor mir erstreckt sich das Atlasgebirge. Dahinter befindet sich die Wüste. Grosse Träume und eine ungestillte Sehnsucht. Dies und jenes und mir reichts. Ich stehe am Bahnhof und fahre weg. Die üblichen verdächtigen werden dann noch in Casablanca verhaftet. Der Ramadan geht zu Ende und für mich steht fest: Casablanca, das Ende einer Reise.

Aug 6, 2005 - I'm definitely not in the US any more.

First off, still no pictures. Had to charge the camera just now. I may get it together. That would be so damn cool. Then again.... Casablanca, Morocco: That is where I am typing from. The reason I am not using any contractions is that I can not find the apostrophe on this keyboard, which has the A where the Q ought to be and the W where the Z ought to be and so on. It is hot and muggy and seven hours ahead of California time. Itès (whoops) after 9 and my shorts are still sticky. Wow, little too much info for yaÉ (no question mark either,...

Jul 14, 2005 - Casablanca

Good morning from Marrakesh and the Hotel Andalous where we have stayed for two days. We had breakfast out by the pool again and thought about picking flowers and smelling them as we walked around the pool, oh that was another person who did that. I had pancakes which were much improved by the use of jelly. I also had some corn flakes as somebody must have found the right cereal to put out today. We enjoyed the fresh orange juice and watched little birds pick over plates with scraps of food or plates that were unattended. The little birds...

Jun 9, 2005 - Exploring wonderful Casa

I had arranged the evening before to have a guide and a driver from the tourist office take me through Casablanca for 3 hours for cheap 45 bucks. I first had to meet with the cab driver who I brushed off yesterday by saying meet me at 11am to discuss price for being my tour guide. He was prompt and offered 2 hours of being a guide for 500Dh or 50 bucks, I quickly said no and the price went down to 250Dh and I said not interested and gave him 10Dh just for being prompt and 5 minutes of time. My guide was a man who goes by Lucky (due to...