Michelle's chickpeas

Morocco Day 6 - Essaouira

Bought return bus tickets to Marrakesh, went for last cannon riding, a little bit of souvenir shopping (not much as it was really quite expensive), last seaside drink.

At the cannons on the last night a young Morrocan man came up to me after watching the kids for a while and said, " I love the way your children are, they are just so happy!" This is always nice to hear, but in Morocco it seemed to us that children were seen and not heard. We often felt like people were growling at us because our children can be quite noisy. We lost count of the times that the hotel receptionist shouted "Shhhh!" at them even when they weren't being overly loud! So it was really nice to hear someone realise that they aren't just noisy they are nosiy because they are free and happy!

A rare family photo (note to self - do more of these!)

The boys favourite buskers - Saucepan man and his band!

It was actually an old hubcap balanced on his head, but we called it a saucepan! Reuben still likes to pretend to be saucepan man!

T'was a bit chilly! Beautiful sky though!

Morocco Day 5 - Essaouira

More of the same really, except we found cannons! Every corner of the wall had a rampart complete with cannons. Well what more can be said, a 2 and a 4 year old boy and cannons that you could just climb over and pretend to boom - hours of fun!!

I got some rare time to myself whilst Tris and the boys charged around the rampart. Whilst sitting looking out to see I got distracted by the seagulls. Living in Cornwall we are used to seagulls being scavengers that steal your pasty from your hand! But the Essaouira seagulls were not like that, they were beautiful and shiny and you didn't have to hide your food if you ate near them. I came up with the theory that they were so well fed from the fish guts that get thrown over the side by the fishermen that they don't need to steal tourists food, who knows but they could do with teaching the Cornish ones how to behave!

BOOM!

The view from our hotel window

The hotel roof terrace

You can;t really see in this photo, but I am shouting at Tris to stop taking photos as a Moroccan woman is trying to kiss Rowan! They all take a shine to the boys blond hair and want to kiss them and take their photos. Rowan hates it, Reuben on the other hand loves it!

There was a small alley where there are lots of woodworking workshops. Tris bought a chess set from this man (one a bit smaller that this one!)

Rowan has a new hobby - sunset photograhpy

Morocco Day 4 - Essaouira

Our days in Essaouria were spent eating, playing on the beach, playing in the park, walking through the town, afternoon napping, sunset watching and a bit more eating!