Dy 48 - Do you want a lift?

After another great breakfast delivered to our room we took a final walk of the streets before heading to the bus station to catch the bus to Fez. We had plenty of time so decided to walk the 15 minutes to the bus station, to the the locals' amusement, a local plumber even slowed down and asked us if we needed a lift.

This time we had booked in advance so that we were on a "comfort" bus. We all went to put our luggage underneath only to be told we had to go back to the office and buy another ticket for each of our bags, we couldn't work out why this wasn't explained to us when we picked up our tickets. This bus was a huge improvement over the one we'd taken to get to Chefchaouen, and having air con made the 5 hour trip easy.

We had arranged to be collected from the bus station in Fez by our riad as finding the way in the medina is difficult, especially with luggage. The car dropped us off outside the medina walls and we were met by the man from our riad. He suggested to us that we hire a man with a small wheeled cart to take our luggage, we thought it was unnecessary as our bags have wheels and we are pretty practiced at managing our luggage. He told us it was very busy inside and he thought it was necessary so we went along with idea, with that our bags disappeared and we followed our man into the medina. 

Busy had nothing on this, it was a rushing, seething mass of people, donkeys, carts, and motor bikes.  We had trouble keeping up making our way to the riad, trying to get our cases through on our own would have been a nightmare. We arrived at the door to our riad and our cases were there waiting for us.

Walking into the riad was another world, all the noise and craziness stopped at the door. It was perfectly quiet, serene and ordered - one threshold and two different worlds. Our backpacks and pockets had felt ripe for the picking outside and we asked how careful did we need to be, and were told it really wasn't an issue. When we were ready for dinner our man from the riad showed us the way to a couple of eating options just outside the walls. Miraculously we found our way home again without getting lost.