Month: December 2013

I can now confirm that if we hadn’t got a guide for our hard core hike, our frozen skeletons would definitely have been discovered weeks later. Instead, our warm bodies were sitting in front of the fire that night at the guesthouse, eating delicious tagines and chatting with the other travellers.

As much as we loved Marrakesh – and there really is nothing like it – we were pretty excited to get out of the city and get some peace and fresh air in the High Atlas Mountains. Our plan to get there seemed fairly straightforward… get a taxi to the bus station to buy our…

So for day two in Marrakech we decided to visit some of the historical highlights of the old kasbah, which turned out to be a very short walk from our riad. Kasbahs (for those that don’t know) were the fortified quarters for the royal family and their guards, designed to be easily defended in the…

So after a mammoth thirty hours of travel we arrived in Marrakesh.. Adelaide to Dubai was the easy bit, although our plane was delayed and nearly missed the take off curfew…  Dubai to Casablanca was slightly irritating as we had some turdy kids behind us kicking the chairs the whole time and we’re too polite…

So we leave for Morocco in exactly 48 hours and I’m still waiting for my bag to pack itself. Once we get there (via Dubai), I expect our posts will be far more exciting and action packed. If we stop writing suddenly, it just means we have been kidnapped so please send money urgently… also…