Tasty Tetouan

12th October 2024.

Cleared the apt and loaded the car by 9.45.  Note to self: get everything laid out before packing … amazing how i can never pack the same. Corrie travelled some of the journey with a chair across her.

We do like a journey with a stop. Tetouan is known as the Daughter of Grenada due to Andalucian architecture. All very grand.

Very Andalucian.  Stopped here for coffee €3 including the tip. Not tourist prices
Entrance to one of the King’s palaces. He destroyed a garden, so had another built elsewhere

Then you enter the Medina. A huge rabbit warren of narrow passageways.  First all the jewellers, clothes and then leather products.

Leading to the tannery.  Fortunately, this didn’t stink, as not used since the Romans.

But some put on a show for tourists

We only had 3 men offer to guide us around. Ice cream a disappointment. May only have been €1.40 for both of us to have 2 scoops, but lacking flavour … they all tasted the same. And definitely no cream. Completely the opposite to my milk shake of yesterday, which was ALL cream, with 2 ice cubes and caramel sauce squirted on top!

Liked this 11th largest Moroccan city … a lot.

Tonight’s destination was Oued Lalou, on the north coast. Camping Ahmed was primitive to say the least!  Two Turkish / long drop toilets, flushed by a bucket with a scoop. Showers?  Try a refreshing dip in the sea OR stand over the loo and throw the bucket of water over your head. No difference between the 2 options really …the water in the bucket came from a salt water well!  But we could pitch the tent on grass and we had the sound of the sea.  €5 per night.

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