Tanger and Fes

Sitting in the Riad (hotel) in Fes now in Morocco. We spent a lovely day in Tanger and only got offered opium once. We stayed a a lovely hotel who's claim to fame is a long list of very old celebrities who have stayed there in the past. I think I was in the Ryan O'neil [sic] room. I was not sure... but it smelled like desperation and faded career.

We met this charming friend of a Facebook friend for dinner and (as irony would have it) ate at a swanky restaurant called "Miami Beach". I came all this way for that? The food was lovely but the Zamfir CD on loop was a bit much (including Love Story, now that I think of it. Why is Ryan O'Neil haunting me?)

Our new Moroccan friend told us that we were going to enjoy everything in the desert including the snakes and scorpions. Pardon me? I did not sign up for either.

Today we then piled into a Toyota land cruiser (our home for the next two weeks) and drove to Fes. Finally meeting up with the last of our group! We are now all together from all parts of the globe

The drive was interesting The only thing we were alowed to do was to eat at a place on the highway that was 'clean'. Our guide does not seem to care to much about the type of food, as long as it's 'clean'. I'm going to defer to his judgement here.

Our senic (and 'clean') stop was this amazing little town called Asilah. You could have been in any part of the Greek isles (except for the lack of Topless Germans and bored Italians.)

I'll post some pics.

Please excuse the spelling here too. I'm doing all of this on my iPod.