The past weekend was a holiday weekend: youth day/King’s birthday, so a few other volunteers came to visit our site and then we went through Essaouira up the coast to Safi. We spent the day in Essaouira as we usually do, an hour or two at the post office to pick up mail, then hanging out and having a good dinner. We decided to try the fish market (see photo), where all the catches are brought and then cooked to order or taken home as you wish. We had shrimp, two types of snapper and sole grilled and it was really delicious (total for both of us was about 12 US dollars.) After dinner we caught the bus to Safi, a coastal town about 2 hours north of Essaouria. We got in pretty late, found a cheap hotel and feel asleep for the night. Safi is known for it’s pottery and sardines. We didn’t try any sardines but we did go to the pottery souk (see picture) and had a good time looking around. We also got to see the workshops where there were men (and a few women) working to produce the pottery you see in the picture. We saw each stage beginning from raw clay to the pottery wheel to a gigantic kilns to the carvers, the glazers and finally the painters. After our tour we went to the beach which was completely full of families and kids swimming, playing soccer and lounging under umbrellas. We saw very few foreign tourists in Safi, which was a bit surprising because of the beauty of it. Also saw the snake psammophus schokari and the toad Bufo viridis