Cruise Days 1-3, 22-24 November Day 1 - 22 November - What a difference a couple of days makes. Departure from Barcelona was a Charlie Foxtrot if ever there was one. The police turned up 90 minutes after they were due - known for it at Barcelona port as it turns out. And did we mention the cold weather had arrived in Barcelona. Which would have been OK, but for the smokers barrelling through the massive automatic doors every 2 minutes letting the warm air out an...

Well. That's that. We've decided that the next time we have a Moroccan sojourn (and there definitely will be a next time), we will definitely spend our whole 3 months in Essaouira - it is just beautiful there. And the climate was perfect - 10 degrees lower than what we're heading to in Marrakech. Fresh winds every day off the ocean. Easy to eat well for 10 euro per night for two and a beautiful beach front walk to do every morning. On our way out of town we had...

Oui oui Monsieur - after a tiny break of… well… 10 years, we are revisiting the beautiful, windswept blue and white city of Essa'oui'ra on the coast of Morocco. Well eventually we revisited - but in these PC (post-covid) trying travelling times, it was not without drama. So many years of blissful, more or less, on time travel came to a grinding halt with the overnight stop in Lisbon and it made us think connecting flights were more risk than were w...