Enjoying our Essaouira Experience – Backpacking Morocco

Enjoying our Essaouira Experience – Backpacking Morocco

What does our visit to Essaouira bring us? Sea, sand, seagulls, more great food, an epic hunt for the only off licence in the village, a town layout you can navigate without a guide and a tale of two properties that’s what. For the more energetic there are plenty of water-sports including windsurfing to keep you busy. […]

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Morocco: Felicitations Fes – or is it Fez?

Morocco: Felicitations Fes – or is it Fez?

Forward to Fes We parted company last time on our journey to Fes, is it really only a couple of days since we got off that bus, it seems like an eternity? Fes is also known as Fez, but we just think of the silly hats every time we write it, so will refer to […]

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Chefchaouen Backpacking in Morocco

Chefchaouen Backpacking in Morocco

Our Backpacking Trip to Morocco starts in Chefchaouen Chefchaouen (or Chaouen as we fondly refer to this place) was as gentle introduction to Morocco as we had expected. It’s a beautiful town teetering on the edge of one of the Rif mountains, whose name escapes me for the moment. It has an interesting history in […]

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From Liverpool to Gibraltar to Algeciras

From Liverpool to Gibraltar to Algeciras

Flying from Liverpool to Gibraltar and onto Algeciras So we are out of England and in what is just about the most southerly part of Spain, our final destination is Morocco but first we are going to sample the delights of Gibraltar, Algeciras (Spain) then onto Tarifa before catching the ferry to Tangiers (Morocco). A very […]

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Morocco Meanderings

Morocco Meanderings

We’re Off to Morocco So I have blown off the cobwebs, dusted down the shelves and the blog is back in action. We had a wonderful Christmas in Goa, but as this little Christmas calm down was mostly going to consist of beach, eat and drink and smoke I didn’t think it worthy of words. […]

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