With a somewhat of a port (wine) glow, I apologise in advance if this blog makes no sense. We are now in Porto, Portugal and preparing ourselves for the 300km pilgrim trek we are about to commence... well actually we arent really preparing, we have just spent the afternoon at distilleries sampling the best port in the world. Arriving really late into Porto yesterday, we were excited to find that our hostel was very much alive - with a port and apple strudel e...

On our last night in Oualidia the heavens opened and there was a wicked thunder storm for the whole evening. We met a cool Belgium couple earlier in the day and ended up having dinner with them, watching the thunderstorm and spending hours laughing about our time in Morocco - from touts, to dodgy taxi drivers, to interesting journeys... it was such a shame that we met them on our last night in Oualidia, but isn that always the way!! The next morning it was an e...

Some of the most satisfaction I get from travelling are the journeys on public transport, there are always dramas or comedy moments and some of the transportation means are hilarious. This is when you really have to rough it just like everyone else, no first class buses or special treatment, if you want a seat you'll sometimes have to fight for it... So... trying to get on the bus from Essaioura we had our first comedy moment, we'd paid the luggage guy to look a...

We left to the bus station early heading for Essaouira, no sooner had we gotten out of our petiti taxi were we approached by a guy asking us where we were going "don't worry I not tout, I work for bus company"... still asleep I stupidly told him our destination, he then whisked us to the ticket office grabbed 2 tickets "you pay bus driver"... and rushed us to the bus. We then got totally fleeced by the guy (a tout non the less), the ticket wh...

Day 3 in Marrakesh - having from mistake of not carrying a proper map, the first thing we did when we got up was purchase one, and although we still managed to get lost, it wasn't for hours this time.. We were able to spend our last day in Marrakesh actually sightseeing - visiting gardens (Jardin Majorelle - a garden owned by the late Yves Saint Laurent) and ruined palaces (Le Palais El Badii). The highlight of the day though had to be taking a photo of a donke...