ESCAPE PLAN: ESSAOUIRA Attention, Travel Aficionados: This is one place you'll want to memorize - A Travel Guide to Essaouira It twitches. It glistens, twitches and practically winks at you from the plate. Essaouira is brought alive by the food that practically walks itself to your plate. A hands-on foodie scene that invites you to get out to the countryside and amble through the vineyards and pat the cheese-goats. It’s not a “pulse” like the big cities such as Marrakech or Casablanca, it’s more like a twitch; subtle, seductive, and super chill-laxed. Locals and tourists alike trickle out of the Raids at around 10am and the fort-village wakes up with Arabic coffee and localised versions of your favourite French patisseries. Once caffeinated, it’s time to explore, and Essouira is not the place you just sit and be served; you get yourself a taxi and a local expert to take you the twitching epicentre of the region. You see, Essaouira is a network of cooperative of farmers and pastoralists, and the best way to taste the delights is to go to the smallholdings and organisations, and watch it be plucked or milked directly into your glass. There’s enough towns in this world to be served on a silver platter, and only a few where you get to tuck that plate under your arm to slice and pour your own delight. Apart from being hip and happening in the 16th and 18th centuries, it’s been the whispered secret of hipsters for the last years, just 2.5 hours drive west of maddening Marrakech on the Atlantic Coast. ...> Zum Original