Monday April 16

Monday- Fes/Meknes

Today we woke up and had breakfast at the riad, we then left Fes to go to Meknes.  We got to Meknes in the afternoon.  We settled into our lovely Riad.  They gave us tea.  After tea we went out to explore a little.  We were both hungry so we went to this restaurant in the BIG SQUARE.  They call Meknes “little Marrakech” because it has a square similar to that in Marrakech.  We ordered fries a pizza, and a “lemonade” to share.  The service was very bad, and the food was worse! We got regular coke, and the pizza was made with laughing cow cheese.  SO terrible! Safe to say it was the worst meal that I have ever had here.  Unfortunate that it was when my mom was visiting.  At least she looked CUTE at lunch. 

After lunch we walked around a little bit.  We were going to go to the museum, but we walked around the medina first.  It was mom’s first experience in a genuine Moroccan medina.  It was definitely market day and all of the Moroccans were out and about.  It was very crowded and hard to move around.  There was nothing of interest to buy, we were just going around for the experience of it.  Mom and I talked about who would survive on this trip and who wouldn’t.  After the medina visit, a lot of people were crossed off the list.  We got yummy donuts (one to share, and then another one to share…).  A little boy was kind of rude to us and asked for a bite of the donut, but then some man came up to him and accosted him.  There were a lot of children running around and getting in trouble by their parents or aquantiences.  From the medina we went to the PALACE. 

The palace was interesting because we were kind of unsure where we were allowed to go, and where we were not allowed to go.  We slowly went into all of the rooms, and we looked in one window because it seemed as if that room was off-limits.  It was old, but kept up nicely.  Here is a picture of ME in the palace, and one of some DOORWAYS. 

After the palace, we walked back towards the square.  The museum was closed by that point, and it was closed on Tuesdays (tomorrow) too unfortunately.  Oh well.  We went to the TERRACE of our roof and ADMIRED the view.  Then we went to our room to shower before dinner.  The shower was very nice and hot.  We decided to have dinner in our hotel because it was recommended in our guide book.  I got couscous and mom got kefta.  It was smaller portions than the last Moroccan restaurant, but still too much.  It was just OKAY- nothing special.  Bad meals for today!!! Hopefully tomorrow will be better.   We spoke to the riad woman to hire a drive to take us to Volubis tomorrow, and she agreed.  We arranged a time before we went upstairs for the night.