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Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Tangier, Part Two
April 19 – 20 Finished with our drinks at Gran Café de Paris, we walked around the corner onto Boulevard Pasteur to the impressive Place de Faro terrace, with its cannons and views back to Spain. It’s nicknamed “Terrace of the Lazy Ones”: instead of making the trek down to the harbor, family members came […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Tangier, Part One
April 19 – 20 Our train trip to Tangier would be a different experience from the one that took us to Rabat. We were booked on the high-speed train for a journey of about three hours. It would run 550 Dirhams ($61) for the two of us in a coach that rivaled its European counterparts […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part Two
April 14 – 16 For our hot air balloon ride the next day we needed to be up and out quite early, something like 6:30 so we walked out to the small plaza just outside the pedestrian lanes to the Riad. After a short wait, a driver picked us up and then made a couple […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part One
April 14 – 16 After another nice breakfast at the Riad we climbed into the van for the last leg of our tour, the short drive to Marrakech. On the way down out of the mountains we stopped at a viewpoint overlooking a terraced valley reminiscent of those we’d seen in Peru and the twisting, […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes to Marrakech, Part One
April 11 – 13 We set out the next morning for the beginning of three days of travel that would lead us to Marrakech, the final stop of our tour. We would spend three nights in three different locations, first at Sahara camp, next near Todra Gorge, and finally in Alt Benhaddou. That drive from […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Two
April 9 – 10 Leaving Moulay Idriss, it was a short drive to Volubilis, a partly excavated Berber-Roman city that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania. Built in a fertile agricultural area, it developed from the 3rd century BC onward as a Berber, then proto-Carthaginian settlement before being the capital of […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part One
April 9 – 10 As mentioned in the earlier post, we were scheduled to meet with our tour group at 6:00pm in Cities, the hotel restaurant. Joanna and I went downstairs a few minutes early and finding seats at one of the tables, ordered a drink apiece while we waited to start. Mine would be […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Casablanca
April 7 – 8 We landed in Casablanca, cleared customs, retrieved our bags and exiting looked around for the driver who was to meet us. For this tour, and many others, Intrepid included free pickup from the airport if you were being transported to the lodging provided for by the tour. Since we were coming […]
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part Two
April 4-6 We left the Falconry and walked a short distance to the stables, a long building with stalls lining each side, each with a window to the outdoors. Most held a horse with a sign on the wall indicating their name and the feed mixture they would be consuming each day. Four of the […]
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part One
April 4-6 We would leave Lisbon the next morning and journey not quite three hours for a two-night stay at Alter Real, part of the Hotel Vila Gale Collection. This part of the trip was behind the whole reason to begin with, that is for Jessica, Gemma and Kris to attend the wedding of their […]
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