Day 230 6th March
8miles (around Fes) Average speed 9.1 mph Top speed 27 mph
Up early for another good brekkie and decided to go on the guided tour of the medina with Ali and 7 others. He was really good as a guide and we chatted a lot about cultural differences and religion while he took us around the tannery and an Aloe Vera silk weavers and an argan oil shop.
Overview of the tanneries
Working on a leather hide
Dying vats
Up close and personal
It was a good tour and worth the 60 dirham for four hours. Then I had lunch of beef sarnie and chips at a cafe round the corner from the hostel. When I asked for ketchup and he didn’t have any he came back with hot haricot beans and carrot salad as a gift. Then I ventured out on the bike in the crazy traffic and found the westernised new town with McDonald’s and all sorts. I went to Carrefour and got some bits and some beer and crisps to eat watching the sunset from a castle above the city. It was great watching the lights come up over the city and the sun going down with roosting birds and bats.
City lights at sunset
I had dinner with Fabian in the medina, but that didn’t go too well with an old guy taking us to a kebab place and overcharging us. Then went to watch Chelsea beat Wet spam before another early night.