Marrakech

My favourite photos from the trip!

Breakfast as the sun came up, it felt cooler this morning – the weather forecast for the day was almost 10 degrees less than the previous, hot, day – just 24 degrees forecast. As we left the accommodation by car, we saw the local area for the last time – unfinished buildings, scrub land, rubbish…

Today was always going to be our lazy day and we started as we meant to continue with a 9am breakfast! Each day the eggs have been different, and the fresh bread/pancake/crumpet has been different. They arrived wrapped in clingfilm as the kitchen is on the other side of the site and the kitchen ladies…

Another 8.30am breakfast today… to the horror of the hotel manager who clearly thinks we ought to be relaxing followed by another car ride with Yassine. Today’s plan involved exploring Marrakech with a guide. Having done our research online, we were not brave enough to venture into the Souk unsupervised! Our guide for the day…

After waking early to check on the progress of the children and their skiing, we snoozed for a bit, buried under a thick blanket. The call to prayer from three different neighbouring mosques ended that and we got up to get our pre-trip breakfast. Some unattached children wandering the gardens were not happy that we…

A painless flight, enlivened by having Simon Faraday from Ghosts sitting right next to us and having Giovanni Georgio (but everyone calls him Giorgio) flying the plane, was followed by a thorough experience in security and almost seamless collection by our driver. We couldn’t see much in the dark on the journey to the hotel,…