Food and Wine
We have now been here for four days and have had four really good dinners. Each restaurant we have visited has been different and all three courses have been excellent. Last night Gill's bread pudding was especially good (they called it “French toast”) although it did not come with custard.
Breakfasts have been a little more challenging despite trying a couple of Trip Advisor “Highly Recommended” cafes we have not cracked breakfast yet. Today's omelette was OK but it was accompanied by lots of dry toast covered in avocado.
Tonight we are going to a restaurant that does not offer wine so to keep our alcohol levels up we called in at the only off licence in Essouira and bought a bottle of vino and then drank it on our roof with some excellent local cheeses at lunchtime.
In the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s the Swedes tried to discourage drinking by only allowing a few places to sell booze and making it horrendously expensive. Here there is only one off licence but the wine is very good value. I asked for local red wine and the manager set out a line of six different bottles, when he told me the prices, as I knew nothing about them, I picked the most expensive – it was £7.28.
Back in our apartment I was keen to try out an app I have put on my new phone which reads wine labels and tells you all about the wine. Being averse to phone users in restaurants I have not tried it so far but amazingly it worked and told me it typically costs £10 in the UK and is rated 3.6 out of 5.
Apart from our daily walk along the beach (not quite so windy today) we have done a couple of art galleries. Both were in beautiful buildings but most of the paintings were outside our price range. We both liked the zebras below which would go well on our living room wall but at £2,500 a bit much for us but how would we get it onto the plane (it is quite large).