After arriving at the train station, I went to the bus stop for the airport bus, planning to take the city bus that would stop outside the airport vs the expensive 3 EUR special airport bus. I managed to miss the first one, the second one just drove past because it was full, and then Marion had already arrived but was still queueing for passport control. So it got late! I checked InDrive and tried a bit less than the recommended price – to which at least one guy replied with a much higher price.. I decided to go on waiting 😉 And then remembered that the app also offers motorbike rides! For cheaper than the airport bus.. soooo I went to the airport on the back of a scooter, without helmet 😀 ..and then still had to wait for an hour or so until Marion actually got out.
We took a car to the city center (we had to walk out of the airport for that, because he refused to drive into the airport because of the taxis,..), walked to the hostel, and then had dinner in the square. The vegetable Tajine was surprisingly cheap… but then also surprisingly tiny 😉 Later, we found my senegalese, jewelry selling friend with the flat dreadlocks in the one main street, and that was it.
We had breakfast on our rooftop terrasse, then walked around in the medina, had coffee in a random little (local – so men only!) place, saw the leather working area (and had to pay for it ;( ), walked around more, and looked at – and for – ashtrays and carpets. Then we saw a man carrying a tajine around.. and shortly after found the little restaurant he had come from.. so we ate there – with only men except us.. and then had a break back at the hostel.. While Marion stayed there, I went to buy Raieb, but the people from may weren’t there ;( And I found a carpet shop that looked like wholesale and not very tourist oriented 😉
We had dinner just next to Jmaa el Fnaa in a place we had seen earlier, saw Ousseynou – not selling t-shirts anymore, but holding a menu trying to get people into a restaurant, changed some money (the Al Barid ATM didn’t work), bought a carpet, and then had tea at the corner of the square….
Monday morning, we packed, ordered a car through InDrive (which kind of refused to actually pick us up at our location, because of the taxis there) and then picked up our car for the week.