Dec 8 – Drive to Casablanca

We drove through some very pretty countryside today…it was all pretty much agricultural with lots of green and plowed fields.

Along the way we drove through a small town that had a booming roadside market going on.

We had a lunch break in the small, seaside town of El Jadida.  They had some interesting old fortifications…

and the usual windy streets and markets...

And a big fishing fleet (being followed by lots of sea birds). 

Then it was on to Casablanca.  When we arrived we did do a quick drive past Rick’s Café.  It isn’t the one from the film Casablanca but all the tourists seem to like to go there.  Other than Rick’s and the mosque there is little of sightseeing interest in Casablanca.  It is primarily a city of commerce (and a city under construction).