The first few days in Morocco were a blur of colour, smells and noise - some good some bad. The souks are busy and crowded with stalls selling everything. The mausoleum of Mohammad the something (Current Kings granddad so presumably the fifth as current king is the sixth and his dad was not a Mohammed) is very beautiful and is about the only religious building we have been able to go inside. Adam plucked up courage and had a hair cut – local style! And one day we visited the local tropical gardens. We tried to get there on the bus, but it was just impossible to work out where we were supposed to wait and we had too many taxi drivers offering us lifts, so gave up and negotiated hard for a price to the gardens – if you don’t agree a price first they ask for silly money when you arrive and it can get a bit ugly. We still have no idea what the going rate for taxi rides is as we have paid everything from 100dhs for a short ride to 20dhs for quite a long ride – so you just have to negotiate hard and be prepared to wait for the next one. It works the same way on the ferry crossing too, for the first couple of days we were paying 10dhs eachway each until we discovered the going rate for locals was 2dhs, now we just hand the right money over at the end of the ride and don’t look back.

Adam: These were are first few days in morocco, now as seasoned visitors it looks so different. Therea are lots of beggars asking for money which is sad however i have adopted one and oly give money to him, you have to focus on certain things and then the whole seems clearer.