Casablanca

We arrived in Casablanca at 4:30am and so used to unlimited data in Europe we had not prepared our route to the hotel. This gave me a few minutes of concern on the train. How close is the station to the hotel? How plentiful were taxis at 5:00am? What do we do at 5:00am?

As we arrived in the station we connected with the ONCF Wifi and answered all of our questions before stepping outside. We were 3.2 km from the hotel. Taxis were waiting to take us, and we could check into the hotel early and get a nap before sightseeing^

I woke up slowly, I guess 4 days before seeing a bed will do that to you. We walked down the Main Street to another train station Gate de Port and it was lovely three levels with many lovely sitting areas, restaurants and such. We sat and read a while, all we had to read was an Irish guide book and we spent some time discussing our preferences for our time in Ireland.

We went for a ride on the Casa Tramway the local commuter transportation, like the skytrain in Vancouver. Like home it was quite straight forward in a Y shape with one arm to the University and the other to the Beach. We, of course, took the arm to the beach, spent a couple of hours^ wandering around and we got some food and then hopped back on the Tramway before sunset and returned to the hotel.

We had an early night, enjoying the luxuries of the 4* bathroom we repacked and were in bed early. We got up at 5:15am to catch the 6:40am train to Marrakech.