Today I woke to a crazy thunder and lightening storm and an almost torrential downpour of rain. Certainly not normal for this time of the year and the city was in no way prepared for the sudden downpour. All the roads infront of the apartment flooded and by 9am all traffic, people and business had come to a stop. It was quite a site to see - 2 foot of water rushing down the street, cars broken down and people pushing their motorbikes. When the rain had stopped An...

I had to get up early today, well I say early but actually the normal of 5am rise and shine so I could talk to my parents. We are trying to Skype once a week now which is great, much better then emails, I can hear their voices and here how they are just by the tone of their voices. We had a nice chat and then I had to say goodbye as I was off to meet another local Couchsurfer at 8am who would be my guide for the morning. Pedro my guide was introduced to me by Ana...

Today I was up early and wow it was steaming hot even at 5am, I did my best to go back to sleep but the heat was keeping me awake. I was feeling very uneasy in this town and specially in the hostel: the guy who ran the hostel was very fidget always sneaking around trying to watch what I was doing and he kept turning the Internet off which kind of annoyed me as I had paid for the service. There was just me and one other Moroccan guy staying at hostel and he was as...