Monday, December 17, 2012

I left Rabat on Wednesday 28th November. After suffering food poisoning I felt weak, I was pale and shaking when we went out in the morning, but although it was sunny it was significantly colder than during the previous days. My host accompanied me to the bus station and I went to Casablanca firstly, the journey there lasted only one hour but I had to wait there almost two hours until the bus to Essaouira arrived. The journey to Essaouira lasted 8 hours and it was around 10:30pm when we arrived, but I had to wait half an hour for my host. The following day we met his friends and walked around the city, it was sunny but windy, we drank tea at the fish market and in the evening my host and his flatmate cooked delicious spaghetti bolognese and then we watched two horror movies. The other day it was rainy and we spent all day at home watching horror movies, we saw 6 of them, my favorite was One missed call. We went to the internet cafe in the evening because I had to check my mail and I left Essaouira on Saturday afternoon. I took a bus to Agadir, however the journey wasn't great because the road leads in the mountains, narrow and curved, people were sick in the bus and one woman who sat across the aisle vomited in a plastic bag. I arrived in Agadir before sunset, my host picked me up at the bus station and we went to his home where we had dinner which his mother prepared for us and then we went to the same disco where we went in April. We danced, they didn't play my favorite kind of music but we stayed there a long time, we returned home after 3am. The other day we went for a walk to a beach, it was sunny but windy, but the weather was warmer than Essaouira. In the evening we danced and sung at my host's home and we recorded many videos.
I contacted my previous host in Marrakesh but he didn't answer on time, so I posted a message to the emergency couch group and I got two offers. I met one couchsurfer at the bus station, we went to his home where we drank tea and played a card game, but then I went to my host who lived very close in the student's area. He cooked chicked tajine for me. We went to the city on Tuesday but we stayed outside only two hours, it was sunny but a bit cold, only 15°C. I bought a good pancake with Nutella and banana for 20 dirhams on the way home. He prepared chicked tajine again in the evening and then I had to leave in the morning around 10am, I took a grand taxi and then a bus to the airport where I arrived too early, around 11:15am and my flight with Vueling airlines was around 13:45. I bought a cake and drank tea there, then I got on the plane and our flight was smooth, we arrived in Barcelona just on time to see the sunset from the plane. It took me two hours until I reached my host's place, he lived in Vallcarca. He cooked pasta for me, not only the first day but also the other days, he knew how to prepare pasta in many different ways. Once he prepared lasagna which was very tasty and next time he made salty pancakes. It was cold at his home because he didn't use the heating in winter. We went for a walk in the city center on Thursday and I met my cousin Jeremy for the lunch on Friday, we went to the restaurant Ciutat Comtal which was close to his work. We ordered many different kinds of tapas and I also ordered a hot chocolate cake. Then I went to Sagrada Familia but I decided not to go inside because there were many people waiting in the line.
I went to a park with my host on Saturday, I tried to eat opuntia which I found but it was a very bad idea because of the hundreds of small thorns that got stuck in my hands. I tried to remove them with needle later but it took several days until I got rid of them.
I met my cousin and his wife and son on Monday and I invited my host to join us. We went to another restaurant and we ordered many tapas again, this time I also had a sandwich with a little tartar beef steak and we had chicken, calmars, tortilla de patatas and eggplant with honey. I ordered an almond cake as a dessert. I left Barcelona on Tuesday afternoon when I took the flight with wizzair, when I left Barcelona the weather was good, 15°C and sunny, but when we arrived in Prague I was shocked to see snow from the plane and it was getting dark already around 4pm when we landed. However, I prefer winter here in Prague because although it is freezing and snowing sometimes I always heat my home to pleasant 25°C.

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