Tangier Again!

Whoops, been busy. Morocco is a land of antiquities and modern all together.  Donkeys and Mercedes Benzes all sharing the one lane in the traffic.   I have been to Fes which is a busy exotic city.  We went to the Medina without getting lost.  Next the trip was to Marrakech which I really enjoyed.  It is a little easier to get around in on your won.  I teamed up with a Canadian lady called Louise and we went to the market place in a mini taxi - Petit taxi.  We had to negotiate the fare first before getting in and enjoying the 360 air conditioning and the missing engine and smoke from the exhaust.  Not one of the window worked.  Not sure it would pass a mechanical.  When we cam back to the five star hotel we waved to the gate man as if we were the Queen in her carriage.  We went to an Arabian nights show with horses and a cat in the middle of the arena!  Lots of gun fire and fun.  The food was great.  It was all in tents except the horse riding.  A cat wandered across, sat in the middle of the arena and then wandered off in the middle of the show.  There are cats everywhere.
Today we have travelled to Tangier via Rabat.  The king is supposed to be coming to town so the place is spruced up.  Tomorrw we get the ferry at 6.15am so the call to wake up will come at 5am.
We went to the royal family mausoleum on the way through Rabat.  It was a very beautiful building with marble and carving everywhere.  The ceiling looked almost like a mosaic glass dome.I hope that Patrick has lots of time on his hands when I come back to hang my wall hangings and my new stained glass lamp.  Shopping and bargaining in the bazaars, medinas and sooks has been great fun.. Sometimes I have been called in to negotiate for some of the others as I am supposed to be the hard headed!!!  The salemen always say that you are going to bankrupt them and put them out of business etc.  But they never lose I'll bet.

Donkey and load sharing the street with the modern car in the background.

This is a waterman where people can buy a drink if you want to take the risk!!

Might use this rifle on the crows when I get home!  At the Arabian Night.

This is the tannery where they give you some mint to put under your nose so that you can tolerate the smell.

Tomorrow is Serville, back in Spain for a couple of days which will be nice.  I am going to a Flamenco show tomorrw night so we will see how that goes.  Don't think I will take any lessons thought.  And besides that I don't have the fancy clothes.
Abdul our Moroccan government assigned guide has now left us.  I thought there for a while we would all end up Muslim converts!!