A great place to visit. The description here says it all!Each time we come we keep finding new reasons to return. Like 'Anchorage' - a great taverna in Sougia on the south coast. Try their 'Taste of Sea' - a sort of upside-down fisherman's pie.
This is a fantastic place to stay. Each bedroom is full of character and the food is just unbeatable - non-vegetarians may NEVER look at meat again!!!To sit on the terrace looking across to the fells and a distant tumbling waterfall is the perfect escape from the stresses of 'normal' life.
We are AMAZED at the amount of information available on this site. Each time I see the invitation for an enquiry, I find what I actually want to know somewhere here. Someone has gone to a TREMENDOUS amount of work to produce all this. It's almost a complete guidebook!CONGRATULATIONS!We are definitely booking through you!!!
Spent a few nights here and wished for more. The atmosphere is totally different to Marrakech and it's quite 'touristy' in a totally unspoiled way. It's less frenetic: calm, peaceful and friendly. It has a fantastic beach, lively harbour full of boats, stalls where you chose your fresh fish to be cooked and lots of places to sit and watch what's going on.We stayed at the Madada - built into the old walls - and I recommend this highly. There are some fantastic restaurants too.
Riad Adiki is up a narrow street of around one and a half metres across. You duck under a couple of low arches, turn left along an even narrow passage, skirting the area where the cobbles have been taken up for repair (who knows when), past the rubbish bins to a large wooden door. Through this and you’re in another world – old Islam – the floor of coloured tiles with rich rugs and hangings and a central pool in a courtyard opening to the sky. There is a balcony and a total of eight rooms. It’s family run and feels it from the friendly, informal welcome. The staff sing cheerfully as they go about their work. The best meal of our holiday was served here.The riad is about 15 or 20 minutes walk from the main square. At first we thought it was too far from the centre, many are much closer, but we grew to really like this. For at least half the walk we see no other foreigners and in any city (I’ve so far visited) I have always preferred to be off the tourist trails.
It took us a couple of days before we deliberately got ourselves lost in the souks. "I wonder where this leads . . ." Haggling was great fun and enjoyed by all. We have developed a scene – Val or I want the item, the other doesn’t, so we argue not just with the seller, but with each other – ‘There’ll be no money for dinner tonight if you buy that,’ etc, etc. Both seller and I talk of starving children, the anger of our wives, and so on.The only slight problem comes when a shopkeeper says, ‘Only 250 dirhams,’ and before I have a chance to say ’50,’ Val butts in with ‘100.’!!! I really enjoy it though and at the end of the session it isn’t just what is actually paid the matters (though of course it does) but the fun spent haggling!
We had wrongly expected most people in the square to be tourists rather than Moroccan. It was the fact that most weren't tourists that we liked about the place so much. The swirl of activity, the pulse of sound, the smell of smoke in the evenings form dozens of barbecues . . . But please god don't send me back to a Marakechi snake charmer in my next life. I promise I'll be good.
The moment when, tired, wet and exhausted, we staggered to the top of the Sun Gate having walked part of the Inca Trail, and saw Machu Picchu spread out below us - just as we had always pictured it. The rain stopped, the sky cleared and the atmosphere was heightened by the whisps of cloud on and around the distant mountain tops. It was a moment without price!
The ice, sea and isolation make Antarctica unique. Best of all though is to sit near a penguin colony while moulting adolescents come right up to you - fearlessly - to find out what you are. Now that is a truly unforgetable experience!
