Day 9 Escape to Asilah
9am Another late breakfast, winding slowly down after the madness of the souks
Think I can feel a little bit of morrocan decor coming on back home.
Love morrocan sinks
and tiles
And Berber Rug
Arrived at station on plenty of time for 11.15 train to Tangiers. Time for coffee..
More beautiful wood carvings
3pm We pulled into The Authentic station Asilah. The rain had just started and the waves on the sea were furiously rolling in. Not the welcome we were hoping for on the seaside chill out part of our journey. We took a taxi to the hotel although it was only 5 minutes away- A 15 minute walk in the wind and rain with our back packs was not appealing appealing.
From here we decided to meander back around the outskirts of the medina. As the light was fading the medina seemed to be coming to life. For us it was beer o'clock having looked online to see restaurants that supposedly would sell alcohol. The Al Kasbah did not disappoint. One small beer was not enough so we had 2, the restaurant was in a great place to people watch.
Without a lot of persaussion we decided to stay and order food and without question sample the wine.
The plan had been to walk back along the sea front but instead we needed to retrack our steps to where we had seen an ATM. Which unfortunately was next to the liquor store.
There was surprisingly quite a few local men buying booze. Boots joined the queue and with two bottles of red 150MAD (£12)each we made our way back to the Hotel.
Sad to leave
So much inspiration
such a peaceful beautiful Riad.
Taxi booked by hotel to go to Gare station pricey at 100 MAD - only 12 minute ride. Sherper with barrow tip 40MAD extra
10.55am Time to board platform 1.
Hope the sun is shining in Asilah
1st stop
11 50am Gare Meknes, and meknes main
12 40pm Sidi Gare
13.20pm heading for the coast
13.38pm
14.20pm only another 30 minutes
Check in at the hotel easy, they actually asked us to cancel our booking.com reservation with no cost and pay the cheaper local rate. Which is what we did and saved about £10 per night and a room that sleeps 4
The rain had stopped . We dumped our bags having found our kagoules and went out to explore. Within 5 minutes the heavens opened again and we unpacked our waterproofs.
It was about 10 minutes walk to the outskirts of town.
The rain was starting to ease as we found ourselves walking towards the port and Medina. The Medina was very quite, could be because it was Friday, the holy day. We strolled through admiring the artwork that adorned the walls serenaded in one part by a group of musicians that included a double bass playing Simon & Garfunkel. appropriately sound of silence. Very soon we reached the
Krikia
Fabulous fish platter & salad
The rain has started again... fortunately we had enough money for another bottle.
Food
Beers
Wine 200MAD a bottle
The plan had been to walk back along the sea front but instead we needed to retrack our steps to where we had seen an ATM. Which unfortunately was next to the liquor store.
Good job I had packed a corkscrew
The morrocan wine we have tried has not been bad and all quite dry.
After one of the bottles it was definitely time to say good night.
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