The chaos of Fez

We arrived in Fes 2 days ago (me, Stacey and Ollie who has come along for a holiday) and were immediately met by the chaos of Morocco. Its more amazing than I imagined. (apologies for the lack of apostrophes in this entry, I cant find anything on this keyboard). After a scary drive from the airport in an ancient Merc which looked like the doors would fall off at any minute, we arrived at the Medina (the old part of the city). We then had to negotiate our way through the narrow crumbling streets packed with people, market sellers and animals to get to where we were staying. As a first taster of Morocco it surpassed all my expectations.

We are staying in the heart of the Medina which is a maze of tiny streets lined with hatches selling everything you could imagine from arts and crafts, leather, food, spices, live chickens... The streets are completely chaotic with all the locals going about their daily business and lots of donkeys and horses carrying goods up and down. The food is amazing. We have already eaten lots of cous cous (womens food apparently although it seems to be Ollies favourite food so far), tagines, kefta and a local speciality called Lubia which is the Moroccan version of baked beans as far as we can tell but much tastier.

Today we are in the new part of town which isnt so nice but are going to head back to the medina soon. Tomorrow we are moving on to Meknes where we hope to meet up with a man we met on the plane who said he would show us around.