Last night in Fes was a bit of a blur. We went out after dinner for a few beers and dancing. The music was not great but funny all the same and our guide seems to really like 2 songs,…
Meknes and Volubilis
We arrived late into Meknes on the train and went for a delicious meal of meat skewers seasoned and cooked to perfection, in a little place we probably would never have found or tried without Abduls advice. Then we went…
Rock the Kasbah
My intrepid tour of Morocco has 7 people only and out guide, Abdul seems good. For those of you on the Central Asian tour with me, you’ll be interested to know our guide provides us with maps marking things, like…
Casablanca the City
I’m now in Casablanca. I’ve never seen the movie, so have no idea of whether the movie actually has something to do with Casablanca or not. I also doubt I’ll ever watch it, although its probably above Titanic and Sound…
Romans, Cats and Heavy metal
This morning we headed back to where our walking tour took us but fortunately avoided seeing the question lady, as she asks too many questions. First stop in the old town was the Roman theatre. We had the place to…
Questions in Plovdiv
So after the wonderful walking tour of Veliko Tarnovo, we rolled the dice and went on the free walking tour of Plovdiv. It started off fine, our guide seemed knowledgable and he wasn’t really the problem. The problem was this…
Plodding to Plovdiv
So Claire keeps reminding me that I forgot to mention the 5000 yr old Thracian gold artefacts we saw in the museum yesterday. This visit to the museum links into the vases I broke the other and had to pay…
Free walking tour VT style
Today we joined the free walking tour of Veliko Tarnovo. These tend to be hit or miss to be honest, but fortunately for us today was a hit and a good walking tour, that took us through some familiar streets…
Intro to Veliko Tarnovo
Just a quick update today. We caught the bus to Veliko Tarnovo, an interesting old town nestled on a hill surrounded by a river that flows all around it. It is hard to explain it and it is a little…
A Rila good Monastery
Claire and I left the hostel early in search of two things: coffee and the bus to Rila Monastery. We found the bus station on the outskirts of Sofia and we also found bus station coffee, which was surprisingly good,…