{"id":1283,"date":"2018-09-17T03:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2018-09-17T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:43:32","slug":"sunday-september-16-2018-overland-to-essaouira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, September 16, 2018 ~ Overland to Essaouira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made several stops on the way to Essaouira with our new Guide, Abdullah. We ate lunch at a local widow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home. \u00c2\u00a0Overseas Adventure Travel pays her to prepare and host lunch for travelers. She made a delicious goat tangine with potatoes, carrots, and peas. \u00c2\u00a0For dessert we had thinner pasta than angel hair, buttered, sprinkled with cinnamon, powdered sugar. \u00c2\u00a0We had a good time asking her questions and answering hers.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4285.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1275 size-full\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4285.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4285-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our hostess<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4294.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1276\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4294.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4294-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stopped at a farm to talk with a farmer who grows artichokes, potatoes, and corn. Unfortunately, one night he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop the wild boars with babies from eating all of the artichokes. \u00c2\u00a0It is against the law to kill wild boar. \u00c2\u00a0Note the huge potatoes that he gave our guide, Abdullah.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4305.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1277\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4305.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4305-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at part of the produce section of this beautiful supermarket in Essaouira.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4315.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1278\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4315.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4315-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Atlas Essaouira and Spa &#8211; at last, we are staying in a hotel instead of another Riad <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4326.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1279 size-full\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4326.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4326-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the market stalls in the M\u00c3\u00a9dina&#8230;I liked this M\u00c3\u00a9dina much better than the others we have seen. \u00c2\u00a0It is in an upscale city where real estate is being purchased by people from France. \u00c2\u00a0We saw some of the huge houses on our way into the city.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4340.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1280\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4340.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4340-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman making Argon Oil.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4338.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1281\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4338.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4338-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fresh seafood in the M\u00c3\u00a9dina <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4333.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1282\" height=\"640\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4333.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_4333-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made several stops on the way to Essaouira with our new Guide, Abdullah. We ate lunch at a local widow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home. \u00c2\u00a0Overseas Adventure Travel pays her to prepare and host lunch for travelers. She made a delicious goat tangine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/?p=1283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolgreene.com\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}