Monday 14 May 2007

hello everyone.
i havñ´t been able to put any photos up since the uk.
since then charity and i met ann and flew to Marrakesh. we´ve had a crazy time exploring the souks and resisting the charasmatic salesmen. everybody is extemely hospitable tho sometimes you get the feeling that they just want your tourist dollars.
i have taken way to many photo´s so some time when i have a fast connection i can put them up. we caut a train to fez and we met a friendly morrocan teacher on the way. he said that the place we booked in fez ws terrableand was ¨ran buy an iraqi¨. he purswaded us to change our booking to another place and organised a guide for us. the new hotel as terrible it was more expencive, badly made, generally less friendly, and not nearly as central to the old fez medina. we moved to the other hotel the next night. anyway it was an expeiriance. fez streets are extremely complex none of them are strait. the buildings are stacked high above each other. and there are millions of shops selling food and handicrafts. a loaf of bread is about 20c $aus but e still managed to get our selves ripped of. i could easily go back there with a little more time.

I´m now in spain near Malagar (cuetar i think) after crossing the high seas yesterday between africa and spain. morroco was much more fertile than i thought . it helps being spring.
no time t o write more now. but i hope a good computer i on the horizon and i can upload photo´s.

1 comment:

Bruce Hughes said...

These people can be quite persuasive (referring to the chap who got you to change hotels). The line about the Iraqui was probably the bodgy line. One reason fervently argued is always more convincing than three reasons.
Still, he got his kick-back, and you got your experience, which connects you with travellers who have been vulnerable to the same hucksters for thousands of years.