Our lodging is a nice modern condo complex next to the water. Really nice place, but laid out by someone that was clueless. We are in apartment 50. So we foolishly went to the 5th floor. We found 51-57 but not 50? Tried the 6th floor. And the 4th. Had to go back and ask where it was; they said on the 4th floor of course! (With a tone as though WE are idiots.) Back to the 4th...lo and behold , there it is. But 50 is in the same spot as 57 one floor up! Huh?! Crazy. Also, the door to get in is crazy huge!
Had a very nice seafood dinner with WINE and BEER. Pretty excited seeing as this is mostly a dry country. The server had us look in the case to see the catch from today and pick out our dinner. It was excellent even though we think he was trying to swindle us. Tried to sell us some sea bass at 500 dirham per kilo and wanted us to get the 3 kilo fish...$150 piece of fish! We declined!
Chris tried out his French and Arabic skills and went to get breakfast for us. He returned with 6 eggs, 4 yogurts, milk for our coffee, oranges to squeeze for juice, bananas, apples, pears and strawberries for fruit salad. All for the princely sum of $1.60...!
Asilah has a festival every spring where the town whitewashes a number of the walls in the old city. Then, selected artists come in and paint the walls as part of the festival. Those murals then stay up until the following year. We walked around and checked out some of the murals and marveled at the 800+ year old walls around the city. There are big city gates and ramparts out over the water, just a very cool place. Reminds us a lot of Greece.
We sat and had our 150th cup of coffee in a cute square and headed to Casablanca.
Very interesting city! And very beautiful! Love the architecture.
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