Our last day of travel on our tour of Morocco.

This morning was an easy start, we left the hotel in Marrakech at 9am, and were taken to the shop of what was meant to be a high quality leather company that exports to Europe.  I guess Europe has Cheap as Chips stores as well!!! We were there for about 30 mins before we hit the road bound for Casablanca.

It was a very uneventful trip to Casablanca, which included a Pit-stop after 2 hours. Rather than go direct to our hotel (check-in times are generally 2pm) we were taken to the “beach” area of Casablanca for a lunch stop. The beach is/looks like grey bush dirt back home. Anyway, the Moroccans and French seem to like it. The beaches all seem to be private areas of the many hotels that line the coast. We had lunch at a cafe overlooking a resort pool and further onto the beaches. We had a walk along the beach and stuck our hands in the water, to touch the waters of the Atlantic on its eastern side!!

After lunch we just walked the shore front for a bit. We saw a sign to China Town, and thought it might be worth a visit, but as we got closer, and had a look down the street the sign was pointing to, all we saw was a Chinese restaurant called “China Town”!!! We walked on past that, a bit disappointed but none the less amused, and saw a cafe called TGI Friday. We thought of all of you enjoying your long weekend!

At 3 pm we drove to the hotel and checked in, we have a room on the 11^th floor overlooking the pool. The only problem is that the pool is in the process of being rebuilt (and has been in that state for about 3 years from what we have heard!). This afternoon we will sort out our luggage for the flight to London and generally relax.