Fez

Great trip in taxi to Fez. Took longer to find the place once in the city than the 50km drive - or so it seemed! And that was with th taxi driver asking directions!

As we keep getting told, this is the real Morocco. We had our best accommodation of the trip here, but probably also the most full on and unsettling experiences.

Had a great tour with a guide - through amazing mazes of alleyways etc. the guide tried his hardest to get us out for longer than 3 hours. 3 hours was dh150 anything over was 250. David had to keep him on time coming back so that it was within the 3 hours - bit of a pain but that’s the game played here. Worth the guide though as it would have been hard finding all the places - mosques, tannery and gates in walls.

The tannery was interesting, traditional operation and smelly - crushed mint helped a lot.

Had one funny incident when we sat down for drinks - the guy moved the umbrella to cover Kim fully from the sun and went about getting bread and dips for us thinking that we were eating there. When we said no food he moved the umbrella again so that some sun was on Kim and then took ages to come back for our drinks order.


Yet more fabulous food for our 2 nights in the riad. Just yummy and good company too - a communal meal -1st night there were American and Canadian and English guests and the 2nd a writer for lonely planet, a political journalist and crew filming a documentary on craftwork here. The hosts were lovely, basically leave the guests to have tea together and then join in after tea with drinks and sharing conversation but always in the background letting guests drive the conversation. Quite a unique and lovely concept.

Kim left us here, been lovely having and will miss her and her cheeky comments. -

Still feel totally bamboozled by Fez and the maps and streets.