Well what a surprise Tangier is. Very cosmopolitan in the weird Moroccan way. Very open boulevards, beautiful beach and views and 2 Maccas.
Not that is a good thing. On our usual after dinner walk to see the city in a different light we discovered the whole ¾ million people out walking as well. We thought it was because it was a Sunday but no it was the same the next night. The other ¼ million were out driving all night outside our hotel window. It is a chaotic but non threatening place. There are so many police walking around just keeping an eye out and blowing their whistle at the drivers and the people illegally standing or dropping off their passengers. Such a noisy place this is from our hotel window at 9:30 pm.
Pedestrians don’t stand a chance in most of Morocco but in Tangier the drivers a more courteous. We actually saw an ad on TV here promoting that pedestrians have right of way on the crossings ..so a lot of people obey. Not taxis though. Lunch was interesting. In the medina we went into a small family run food place.The kind where grandma is out the back cooking and husband is serving and the kids helping out. I ordered Harira, my favourite soup to discover pieces of meat skulking in my bowl. I am not vegetarian totally but prefer not to eat LIVER. It reminded me of Japan when we ordered teriyaki and it was skewers of liver, brains etc. I thought this Harira soup was vegetarian. Any way later as I did not eat lunch we went into a Patisserie /pizza place and was going to order these delicious looking pastries like the greek filo fetta and spinach triangles and things that looked a little like calzone. To be on the safe side I asked what was in them…guess what liver again. Very funny you might think but we had earlier walked through the Grand Socco (Market) and saw the stands of meat and the specialty ones of all the offal so was feeling a little queasy.
Seriously the food has been fantastic and we love the Tagines. Tomorrow we are off to Assilah, a beachside village, for the last three days before we fly out from Tangier to Madrid. Maybe we will see the King on his tour.
Not that is a good thing. On our usual after dinner walk to see the city in a different light we discovered the whole ¾ million people out walking as well. We thought it was because it was a Sunday but no it was the same the next night. The other ¼ million were out driving all night outside our hotel window. It is a chaotic but non threatening place. There are so many police walking around just keeping an eye out and blowing their whistle at the drivers and the people illegally standing or dropping off their passengers. Such a noisy place this is from our hotel window at 9:30 pm.
Pedestrians don’t stand a chance in most of Morocco but in Tangier the drivers a more courteous. We actually saw an ad on TV here promoting that pedestrians have right of way on the crossings ..so a lot of people obey. Not taxis though. Lunch was interesting. In the medina we went into a small family run food place.The kind where grandma is out the back cooking and husband is serving and the kids helping out. I ordered Harira, my favourite soup to discover pieces of meat skulking in my bowl. I am not vegetarian totally but prefer not to eat LIVER. It reminded me of Japan when we ordered teriyaki and it was skewers of liver, brains etc. I thought this Harira soup was vegetarian. Any way later as I did not eat lunch we went into a Patisserie /pizza place and was going to order these delicious looking pastries like the greek filo fetta and spinach triangles and things that looked a little like calzone. To be on the safe side I asked what was in them…guess what liver again. Very funny you might think but we had earlier walked through the Grand Socco (Market) and saw the stands of meat and the specialty ones of all the offal so was feeling a little queasy.
Seriously the food has been fantastic and we love the Tagines. Tomorrow we are off to Assilah, a beachside village, for the last three days before we fly out from Tangier to Madrid. Maybe we will see the King on his tour.
2 comments:
Didn't realised you'd blogged so much :) .. Had a quick skim through read but sounds like it has been awesome!
Hey Julie if you are seeing Mum can you take some more to read. thanksxx
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