Went into town quite early – fended off countless touts to be alone – bought painting.
Got a bit lost, but then found souk – I bought sandals, Janie bought the baboushes [slippers], then got bored with touts. Found ourselves a horse and carriage lad who had kept looking out for us and got him to take us round the ramparts, and then back to the souk (Berber part, then Arab part) where Janie, bought raffia.
I haggle hard & one [merchant] offered 6000 camels for Janie (previous best offer – 4000 camels).
Then home for relaxing afternoon on fab terrace.
Realised we needed extra baggage for our purchases. The result was to return to souk quickly (with tout). Naturally no touts were to be found, but shunned souk shopkeeper from earlier grabbed us and sorted out great leather holdall and more sandals & baboushes dead cheap!
Home to change and dinner at oh so snooty La Gazelle Dor (méchoui). Adam (manager, so OTT, it’s untrue). Great meal at £50 plus tip all in better than I expected.
All the photos from the first part of our journey are on this Flickr album – click here or below:
A placeholder and links for information about this whole trip can be found here and below.