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Asilah, Morocco
For my sixth weekend adventure in Morocco, I visited the city of Asilah! Akin to most of the other trips I have taken in Morocco this trip was taken and planned by myself and my consistent travel companion/fellow student. Asilah is a small seaside town that to my joy was a lot cleaner than Meknes or Fes. Transportation & Arrival On a Saturday morning we took the 7:45 am train from Meknes to Asilah. We ran into a bit of trouble booking our train tickets this time as the ONCF website was not working. We tried to go in person to book our tickets, but there was a very long…
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Sevilla, Spain
My fourth weekend trip, while studying abroad in Morocco, was to Sevilla, Spain. (This was done in order to renew my Morocco visa.) I had previously attempted to get a student visa directly from the Moroccan Embassy in D.C., but had been unable to get in contact with them. Technically one does not “need” the visa as long as the stint in Morocco is shorter than 90 days. Because my total stay would be just over 90 days this meant that I would need to leave the country during my stay and then reenter the country again. I could have simply visited one of the two Spanish enclaves in north…