Having checked into a nice Fez hotel with all the trimmings, I was still a little surprised when Cinthia cried out "Oh, look at that, it is a turtle". Sure enough, a turtle as seemingly domesticated as a lapdog had appeared beside her chair, and appeared to be attemping to climb the chair, to get some attention. Not knowing whether or not to feed it, the Moroccan breakfast assistant intervened and said... "I'll bring a lettuce". She did, and then proceeded to bring the lettuce, and 3 other turtles.
Cinthia and an English lady watched on as the four turtles devoured the lettuce... very, very slowly. The bigger turtle dominated by deliberately stepping on the head of other turtles, until Cinthia, like a maternal figure, told it off and put it a metre away. Law of the jungle Cin, the bigger get to dominate, just the way it is in the world of turtles. The bigger turtle returned to the feeding frenzy, and then proceeded to again show its dominance, this time by weeing all around the lettuce.
The day required a change of accomodation, and through the research powers of Booking dot com, we managed to find a luxourious hotel for less than half price of the previous night. The bigger challenge was finding it. Given there are over 9000 streets in the Medina, most of them tiny, we engaged a local who pretended he knew where it was, but of course didn't. At one stage, 3 Moroccans were arguing as to where the accomodation actually was. After almost an hour we found the accomodation.
Fez is a great place to shop, and we continued in buying Moroccan goods cheaply. One of the shop owners explained how he frequently sold to the Kasbah in Melbourne. However in melbourne- you end up paying 10 times the amount here in Morocco. We bargained and negotiated with numerous shop owners in there little shops- the question what is a good price for you frequently fired at us- as of course there are no marked prices- it doesn't work like that. We urgently need another suitcase to fit everything in.
For dinner we dined in a former palace, which not only served great food, however was amazing inside. Finally, we were living up to my prediction of living like Kings in Morocco.
Hey guys, I loved Fez ... Have you bought a carpet? I could not help but buy two when we were in Fez to add to the teapot, trays & other bits that was gathering in the suitcase.
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