Monday 6th June
After a 4.30 a.m. start, we are in Fez airport departure lounge. Alastair looks at his watch and says â€?Do you want to fly? You know our flight is at 6 o’clockâ€? of course this makes it 6 a.m. on the sixth day, of the six month of the sixth year of this […]
Monday 5th June
We share our breakfast with the Congolese men and the man with the two women in black. Could they be his wives? How could one possibly cope with two wives?
Anyway, he probably wasn’t going to tell us, and we had stuff to do.
Mondays in Fez make it very difficult to get a […]
Sunday 4th June
We have a rather dry â€?continental’ breakfast in the hotel restaurant with two Congolese gentlemen (at least, that is what their shirts said) and an Arab accompanied by two women in full black veils. I wonder, could they both be his wives? The pastries taste synthetic, and as they hit my stomach provoke […]
Saturday 3rd June, 2006
We wake around 10.30 and head off for breakfast. Our hotel is situated in the new town or Ville Nouvelle, it looks like a normal Southern European town. There are wide roads and boulevards lined with shady trees, caf?©â€™s with wide awnings provide an excellent place to drink coffee and Moroccan mint […]
