Museums: Nördlingen (Kulturland Ries Museum), Iphofen (Knauf Museum: Marilyn Monroe), Marrakech (Yves Saint Lauren Museum), (Tiskiwin Museum – Berber Art), (Dar Si Said Museum – carpet and weaving), Athens (National Archeological Museum)
Transportation:
Trains: IN-N, N-Iphofen, Iphofen-N, N-M, M-IN, M-Dachau, Dachau-IN
U-Bahn, S-Bahn, Tram in Munich and Athens, Bus and train in Athens
Taxis in Athens
Flights: We’ve taken 17 flights so far, all of them one-way, never a round trip! At flight #15, something unusual happened: we got something to eat! That was Royal Air Maroc and there were only male stewards, no female stewardesses. This month we’ve taken only 5 flights: Muc-Fra, Fra-Marrakech, Casablanca-Bologna, Bologna-Fra, Fra-Athens
Car drive: 2792 km in Morocco. We drove by the biggest solar plant in Africa (near Ouarzazate, Morocco). On day 16 of our road-trip, we finally saw roadkill. Probably an animal that died of old age…
Camel ride: 2 hours (~2 km maybe) – enough to have a sore butt for 2 days
We had a tour guide in Marrakech who kept on telling us a lot of lies, for example: 1. Indigo is a blue rock that is used to dye clothes 2. Muslims pray to the east, no matter where they are. Both of us doubted that and asked: how about people in India, do they pray east or towards Mecca (which would be west)? And he insisted that it is not towards Mecca, it is always east!
Animals of the month: donkeys, mules, horses, dogs, cats, camels, storks, mice, cobras, goats, sheep, monkeys, song birds, cows, chicken
Most southern point: Essaouira, Morocco 31*50N
Most northern point: Arctic Circle north of Raufarhöfn, Iceland 66*30N
Most western point: Western Fjörds near Isafördur, Iceland 25*W
Most eastern point: Athens, Greece 23*43E
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