Meknes and Volubilis, Morocco

It is a wonderful feeling to have a blank travel canvas. To just have flights and nothing but flexibility in between brings an extra layer of excitement. As we sat in our riad in Marrakech trying to decide where to go next our only real consideration was that we had a flight home from Gibraltar…

Marrakech, Morocco

Marrakech is an absolutely amazing city but it took a while for me to appreciate its charms. After 5 hours I was half tempted to leave and never return in fact. Upon arrival we found a petit taxi to take us to our Riad. It wasn’t possible to drive all the way to the Riad…

Tafraoute to Marrakech, Morocco

Tafraoute was great and we could easily have stayed longer. But the city of Marrakech beckoned. We know many people who have been to Marrakech and their opinions ranged from “Bloody super!” to “Horrible. Don’t go!”. Such divided opinion is exactly the sort of thing that attracts us. We love a bit of adversity, we…

Tafraoute, Morocco

Tafraoute, a town high in the Anti Atlas Mountains, is a bit of a tourist magnet. We decided to go for a look and planned to do some walking and see the local sites. To get there we needed to use another Grand Taxi so we started the morning again at Mirleft chatting to locals….

Mirleft to Legzira Plage and Sidi Ifni, Morocco

We caught a taxi to Agadir bus station but after some awfully confusing French conversation (they speak French in Morocco as well as Arabic and Berber) we discovered the next bus south didn’t leave for 3 hours. So after buying the tickets we jumped back into another taxi and went back into Agadir for some…

Agadir, Morocco

Thirteen months of being stationary feels like an eternity to somebody who has spent over 7 months abroad since December 2010. So when Easyjet released their latest list of bargain flights we very quickly decided to make our first visit to Africa. Morocco to be more exact. The southern city of Agadir is a very…