Rabat

We arrived back in Casablanca quite late in the night after a very very long train trip from Marrakech. There was trouble with the communication links on the tracks. Imagine 2 foreign women trying to look for accomodations at 11pm, we walked into 2 establishments near the railway station, one was full, the other was scary. We found a friendly taxi driver who found us a nice and cheap place nearby. We had another full day before we needed to fly out of Morroco. We decided to take the hour long train ride to Rabat, the capital of Morroco. We arrived at aa station that was under construction. The pace of modernisation is quite furious, in fact, I read this about most places that are interesting and where people are flocking to these days. I read this about the major cities in Turkey because I'm preparing to go to Turkey. You can say this of China too, though I don't know about India. Rabat is a thoroughly modern city at first glance. We found ourselves face to face with a group of blind protestors. We walked into a pharmacy and saw all the western medicines being stocked on the shelves. We really came to see the old part of town and there is a large and interesting old part of town which we will explore....