Awoke this morning with Philip out on the terraces taking photos of the ocean as the light was hitting the rocks. Yeah I know damn awful way to start the day! His challenge was to try and capture the crashing [...]

Today we were picked up from our Riad, the Riad Rafaele in Marrakech and transported two and half hours drive away to a seaside place called Essaouira. The drive down (through transport organised by the apartment) was uneventful except for [...]

"Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive". Tahir Shah. Today we headed to Marrakech, the fourth largest city in Morocco behind Casablanca, Rabat, [...]

We awoke at 6:30 am to be ready to meet the sunrise on top of one of the dunes surrounding our camp site. The night hadn't been as cold as we were told it would be although the five blankets [...]

We woke up at 6:45 and had an early morning breakfast before our guide/driver and companion for the next couple of days, Youssef, came and picked us up at the Riad. We walked out of the medina and made our [...]