So, Africa. Now this is starting to feel like traveling. Europe was fun but it was easy, at least half of everyone I know had been to any one of the cities that I was staying in Europe (ok, maybe not Belgrade). My first day routine of just aimlessly wandering around the city to get my bearings certainly seemed more daunting in Rabat than anywhere else. Of course, that’s really just all in your head… if you keep your head about you.

I started off trying to satisfy my caffeine addiction so I made my way to a cafe that I found… somewhere, probably TripAdvisor or FourSquare. Well it turns out this place was just the little coffee shop in the train station which was disappointing but I was desperate so I stayed for a cappuccino at Cafe Segafredo regardless. In Europe I was able to get by with English just fine. Not so here, my extremely limited French has been taxed to it’s limit already. Suitably caffeinated I set out to try and find a better place for breakfast. This search led me to the nearby TyPotes which was a great second attempt. They had a just killer breakfast and fast WiFi so I’ll definitely be heading back there.

After having eaten I just wandered. I walked out to the Mausole Mohammad V and then up the river to the coast, through the Medina which was very cool and… I think, but I haven’t checked, that it’s election season here so there was some campaigning going on which always makes me feel at home!

I had basically lapped the entire city by the end of the day and I was totally exhausted so I just popped into this pizza place for dinner; Metros de Pizza. Funny enough it was the best pizza I’ve had on my travels so far… but that could just be because I was starving. It’s a neat concept, though. You can order by the meter and they just keep making the pizza longer and longer and longer. After that it was back home to bed early.