Hitch 2012 - Day Eleven, Fez

Nick and Charlie came round at about half ten to leave their bags in our room for the day. We went and got street breakfast from the place that was kind of like pancake with chocolate in it. We walked up through some other medinas, looking for the palace. We thought we'd found it, but when we asked the guard if we could go in he replied with an abrupt 'no' which made me and Aiden crack up laughing. We walked off pretty quickly, took a quick visit to the bank and then got roped into a free tour to a mosque by a student. We thought that he might try to scam us by dragging us through a maze of alleys and then making us pay him to find our way out, but when we asked he claimed that Aidens face was better than money! 

While on the tour I saw some kids being out a plastic bag with blood covering their hands. I heard on of them call to me and when I turned around they pulled out a sheeps head, grinning. I think they expected me to freak out but it was so surreal I just laughed and nugged the boys, who were a little surprised to say the least. 

After the tour we walked towards the posh part of town and sat in a cafe for a while. We'd eventually made it to the palace, which was basically just a big golden door. It took us a while to cross the chains because we weren't sure if we were allowed to go in there. After taking a few photos we moved in and made our way back to the medina. Here we went much deeper than before, and we walked through dark streets which were wet with rubbish everywhere. But before then we went to visit the 'most beautiful building in Morocco' which was a bit impressive, and even better when Charlie sheepishly stuck his head under a no entry sign. Charlie had got in trouble earlier too for taking a picture of the wall next to the palace. A guard had chased us down the street and then made us walk with him up to where the other guard was and made him delete the pictures. Poor Charlie, he only took the pictures because nick told him to! 

On our way down to the dark streets we saw tortoises in a box for only 50d each! I really wanted one, but apparently customs wouldn't approve. Down in the dingy bit we got kabab type things on sticks that were then put into bread, and tasted amazing. On the way back up he saw a shop selling a ps2 game - GTA Somalia, and there were sheep just wandering the streets. We got more street food and then the guys went to buy snacks for the night bus. Nick tried to take a bottle of water from the bottom of the pile and freaked the shop keeper out. We sat at our hotel for a bit then got a taxi to the bus station where we got tickets for Marakesh and hugged goodbye to Nick and Charlie once again.