Archive for Morocco

Agadir

Photo: Agadir

// April 20th, 2008 // Comments Off // Morocco, Transatlantic Nov'07

Next up after Casablanca was Agadir, Morocco. There’s really not too much to Agadir except for a beautiful beach area lined with restaurants and cafes. It’s a small city dedicated to its beach. There are no real historical sites, except for a wall from the old fortress. Everything was pretty much wiped out in 1960 by an earthquake. (more…)

Casablanca

Photo: Casablanca

// April 20th, 2008 // Comments Off // Morocco, Transatlantic Nov'07

I had decided before arriving in Casablanca to arrange for a guide. Normally I would have gone exploring on my own but there had been some problems in Casablanca a few months before and I didn’t want to take any chances. So, before arriving in Casablanca I had arranged for a tour guide through a recommendation on the Cruise Critic forum boards. While the guide originally recommended wasn’t available, he recommended another guide. At the last minute, the new guide contacted me to let me know that a friend of his would be meeting me and he would catch up with us around lunch. As a member of the Tourism Board he’d been pressed into service because of the shortage of English speaking guides and there were 2 cruise ships in town that day both with mostly English speaking passengers. He assured me his friend would take very good care of me. (more…)