Today I am in Chefchouan, a couple hours by bus outside Tangier, but it is a world of difference. This town is so nice, while Tangier really sucked. We are in the mountains which are very nice and the weather is clear and sunny but cool. Also the hills and countryside are green and very un-desert like. On the bus I met some guys from Belgium and Brazil and we now have a hotel together. The hostel was open but is empty and is a 15 minute hike up from the town, plus no hot shower so we got a hotel for twice the price. But it's still only 50 dirham which is ~5 Euro or $7. We're just walking around the medina now and I think tonight we'll sit around on our hotel terrasse and have a beer. You see a few other tourists walking around the city, but very few. It's not like a tourist town at all. Nobody really bothers you besides a few faux-guide offers. Most people I've talked to speak French so communication is easy. Sometimes also English, Spanish, Portugese etc etc. These are all second languages however. Among each other they speak Arabic.