An active day – 5 km of walking through the medina of Fès.  The medina has 9600 alleyways (30% of them dead-ends) and we must have traversed many of them seeing old ruined palaces, an exquisite medrasa from the 9th century, donkeys, souks and more souks.

This was an opportunity for everyone to get a feel for the medina and the life of ancient Fès.  We were in four small groups (everyone now recovered, with one exception), which made the visit manageable.

Lunch was at Mike Richardson’s Café Clock, next to the medrasa, that was to be his home but quickly became the site for a great restaurant spread over many levels in two co-joined riads.  Camel burgers anyone?

After lunch we walked through more shops to the tannery, newly renovated, where our artists were due to spend a couple of hours, but the smell from the vats and the attraction of shopping, meant a change of plans.

More injections into the Moroccan economy including from me – bought a great wool and camel hair carpet and felt good about bargaining him down 2200 dirhams, but realised I could have done better when he accepted too quickly! It’s a lovely carpet and we have just the place for it in Casa do Javali back home in Óbidos.