last days on land

Ahoy,

We woke up later than we had anticipated, but it was worth it. We set out for Fes sometime close to late morning. The train ride was almost 4 hours, but it was air conditioned. Arrival was around 1430 and we caught a taxi to the souks and where a lot of other tourist things were according to our guidebook. The last train back to Casablanca was about 1900. We walked around the souks and wandered our way to a tannery shop. It was super stinky. Later, we found out we were supposed to get some mint leaves to hold to our noses. There were these kids that kept trying to be our tour guides. They would tell us to follow them and we would just turn in the other direction. We stumbled our way into a wood museum I no longer remember the name of. What was so cool about Fes was that it didn't feel so touristic. There was significantly less hassling. The spirit of the place was so different from most everywhere else we had been. We left around 1900 because we didn't think we would find much to do at night. A tour guide said there wasn't anything interesting at night either.

The next day was spent getting Internet at this hotel across the street from the port in Casablanca. And also Rick's Cafe - after the movie was made. They had Casablancalooping on television screens. I also went hunting for stamps, which the post office did not have. I had to go searching for this kiosk around the corner and down the street. Morocco is a place I would want to go back to, but the port entrance was so far from the ship. It was a good half hour or more by foot to get out.

tramplingly sullied,
JT