Hotel Le Méridien

Excellent Hotel with excellent service.

After a short break with thé à la methe I went to the Médina, the ancient city of Marrakech.



It´s quite hard there when you are allone, everyone wants to guide you to some special place – the shop of some friend, where you pay double the price than normal... well still a little cheaper than in good old Germany.

Sightseeing? No way - only shops, for textiles, glass and waterpipes, shoes and so on.









But without someone who knows the Médina, you are lost, it´s really chaotic with all the small streets crossing here and there, one bazar after another.
Funny and exhausting.



Now I´m recreating, tomorrow will be our first day of work.


See you later,
Chris

12.00h 2006-10-02
No, thank´s I´m through with all this. I should be in Marrakech in one hour – but it came different:



I met sinhala people at the airportbar in Paris and after 3 drinks (two of them were much too expensive, the third was free of charge...) I´m fine again.

It all started at 07.30h in Munich with 20 min. delay.
That delay caused that I came late to the airport Charles De Gaulle in Paris and further I didn´t get my flight at the airport Orly, also in Paris but on the other side of the city....

- Just to inform you, it costs € 55,- to get from one airport to the other with the taxi, so you understand why I´m very angry!!! By the way, the transfer-bus was already gone.
€ 55 for nothing as we´ll see.

First, Air France wanted me to stay one night at a hotel near the airport in Paris, but that was not posible for me.

After discussing a while (about 20 min), the very sympathic ladies from Air France at the airport Orly found another flight to Marrakech, over Casablanca, but this takes about 10 hours longer as planned.

14.00h
So I´m sitting here again at the Airport Charles De Gaulle since one hour.
Yes you are reading right, I had to go back to the first airport, this time free of charge.

J J J J J

14.30h
...And I`m waiting at the bar for the next flight to Marrakech via Casablanca.

As I mentioned, there were sinhala people, who invited me for the third drink and now I´m relaxed enough to take all that not too bad J

14.50h
Well, enough for now, my flight is boarding now, I have to go...

15.45h
Now I´m in the airplane to Casablanca.



Sun is shining and the weather is fine (yeah we are above the clouds...), France is still below of us, or is it Spain?

Here it comes, the fourth vodka tonic! This time with a very good view out of my window (but lunch/dinner in the airplane is terrible...)



The earth is far away, so are my sorrows.

17.00h
Casablanca
The flight was ok, with some small turbulences.
My next flight to Marrakech departs at 23.05 – five hours to wait.

But I didn´t want to wait at the airport, so I went to Casablanca for sightseeing.
We (my driver and me) went to visit the moschée (it´s ramadan this month – everyone has to pray and so on), had some thé à la menthe and tasty regional food.
It´s a very nice place here, you would like it here.
Te traffic is quite chaotic but very funny. There are traffic rules, but no one takes care of them.
I remember sri lankan traffic.

22.00h
Back again at the casablancan airport.
Only half an hour to wait for boarding...

00.30h 2006-10-03
Finally I´m in the hotel now.
Only 12 hours later than I wanted to be here.
I´m tired as hell and have to sleep now.

That was my adventure to come to Marrakech in more than 20 hours.

See you soon,
Chris