Ten pm came quickly. Our riad staff came out with mint tea and almond cookies. We toasted the fact that we had an awesome vacation in Morocco. The riad staff went over and above for our whole stay with them…so friendly and accommodating. The luggage guy with no teeth was right on time to collect our baggage into the cart. He made sure we carried our purses in front …
Now back to our last evening in Fes. After resting up ( the high 43+ heat really zaps it out of you), we had a phenomenal meal at our raid. It was our best meal here so far. So moist and tasty. We ended the evening with Moroccan mint tea on our roof terrace.idir ((our hotelier) chatted with us for awhile as we looked at the ancient medina from …
This morning we had a lovely breakfast served in a sma ll dining room off the courtyard; Morrocan tea, hand squeezed orange juice, cakes, olives, cheeses, bread, Moroccan pancakes, honeys and jams. Yum.. This riad and it’s wonderful staff (Idir) is wonderful. It is called Riad Tafilalet www.riadtafilalet.com The streets were all cleaned up in the morning, most donkey pooped cleaned up ( or sawdust put over) and garbage …
As usual, preceding a long trip, the past few weeks of preparation were crazy busy. I hadn’t slept much. I dressed for the flight in my usual travel fashion, I prefer to refer to it as “Airport bag lady chic”. The look is accomplished by layering as much as possible in order to save space in your luggage…you won’t be far off if you visualize the Michelin man…which is …