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Trip Start May 01, 2010
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Trip End May 06, 2010


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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Quite a typic 6am scene really: A group of bleary-eyed twenty-somethings on their first stellas of the day eye up the less-than-attractive hen party thats just walked in to the large hall, springy pink antenae dancing above their heads as they make their way to the Weatherspoons for a full English. Meanwhile, the mother of three screaming kids stocks up on discounted perfume as a middle-aged couple bicker over how many millimetres their collective toiletries add up to.. I'm at the airport, and this is my starting point of a journey to a different culture altogether: Islamic Africa.

As my plane leaves the tarmac and moody weather of Luton Airport behind, I am pleased to read in my guide book that, as an Islamic country, morocco uses the Hegira, or lunar calendar.
I am currently on day 26 of a self-inflicted month-long abstentation from alcohol, and have in the past few days as the end appears, been having debates with my flatmates and frends about my challenge completion date. A month is merely 28 days long, or 4 weeks precisely, I say,
admittedly argued in favour of having a beer atop some Riad in Tangiers. To ridicule came this claim, as everyone knows a month is a calendar month. My desperate argument that I follow the natural lunar month rather than the man-made Gregorian month was rightly dismissed as
a self-serving argument, however when in Rome...
As an Islamic country how available will alcohol even be? What else that I take for granted will I find surprisingly lacking less than 4 hours from home? What unknown unknowns am I in for?
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