I’m still enjoying wondering around the depths of this interesting city. Everyone seems to get on with everyone else and there’s a sense of calm wherever I seem to go, maybe it’s me! And even though the car horns are very well exercised, I’ve not witnessed anything remotely close to road-rage. The newer buildings are fashioned in a typical North Africa style, known as “Brutish” architecture. It’s a mix of rough square concrete façades, with lots of sharp edges, all packed tightly together and looking ready to tumble into the street below, at a moments notice. Garish at first glance perhaps, but as you look deeper into this urban cityscape, there’s a strange attractiveness to each building. It’s been a pretty hot week, with temperatures around 30 degrees, so I’ve spent the hot afternoons, booking trips and planning our next move, which always requires careful consideration. We spent most of the weekend on the other side of the Bou Regreg river in Sale. It’s a newer part of town and there’s recently been a significant amount of investment into developing the Marina, with some swanky apartments with rows of restaurants and cafés underneath and endless promenades. It seems to be a big hangout for the hip and trendy locals to meet friends and socialise. A little further on from the marina and perhaps on a little less glamorous stretch of the river, is where a small wooden fleet of fishing vessels sit marooned, waiting for the morning tides to take them back out into the Atlantic.
Dream Chasers 