Advantages: Great for cheap shopping, good fun, an introduction to Africa Disadvantages: Traders can "hassle", lots of begging
Though I say it myself, my feet are rather nice; no corns, not smelly and quite dainty. However, they are awfully itchy, an itch for which I can find no remedy. Here I am trying hard to save lots of money for a four month trip around the Black Sea next year when my feet decide to dip into the money (not literally - these mixed metaphors can be so unpleasant sometimes) and toddle off to Andalusia for a couple of weeks.
There's only one thing harder to control than my itchy feet and that's my unrelenting curiosity. It never fails to get the better of me. I try to say no but panic starts to set in - what might I miss, will the chance ever arise again, what will happen if I don't give in to it, how soon will the regrets set in?
It was in order to avoid all these questions that I made the crossing from Tarifa in southern Spain to Tanger ...
fizzytom 04.07.2005 (05.07.2005)
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I first saw Hotel du Nord as part of a double bill with a film by Jean Renoir (I forget which - though I think the brilliant Le Crime De Monsieur Lange) and I was frankly going to see the Renoir film and thought, hmmm, I'll just have to sit through Hotel du Nord and grin and bear it. Something about the film just really didn't appeal. Then right from the opening shot that tracks down from the bridge over the canal Saint Martin and along the side of the canal to where the two lovers, played by Annabella and Jean-Pierre Aumont, settle against one another on a bench, despairing and apparently doomed I simply didn't look back. I couldn't.
Since that Sunday afternoon I have always had something of a soft spot for Hotel du Nord. It is firmly placed in the traditional of French cinema of the thirties. Like his contemporaries, Renoir ...
Advantages: Rooms and food are great, very relaxing Disadvantages: Location, location, location!
We have just returned from spending the Easter weekend at Riad O2 in Marrakech.
Prior to visiting Marrakech we had good email contact with the riad, and we confirmed with them that we would like to be collected from the airport and have dinner in the riad on our first night. We then arranged to pay the outstanding balance by bank transfer.
We arrived at Menara airport after a really easy three hour flight, and we were quickly met by one of the riad's drivers, Hamid. He helped us to his car with our bags and we set off for the medina. Having read a couple of reviews on other sites before leaving we were a little wary of the area that Riad O2 is situated in, and unfortunately on arriving I have to admit our worries were confirmed. Hamid pulled up at the end of a road near Sidi Ben Slimane, and we then walked for three or four ...
