A guide in Fes

After a bit Michael also woke up and we talked about what we would do. The problem was, we had only one key, so were dependent on each other. He was on a mission to buy and sell. He also had been to Morocco before, so I thought I could benefit from his experience. He didn't want to go with the girls as he thought they would slow him down, so he suggested we should go separate ways from them after breakfast. I was complacent to this. On the one hand I thought it would be great to go with the girls, since they planned to stay in Morocco for almost two weeks (I think the "Spanish girls" planned to stay for 9 days, whereas the polish girls planned for 12 days) and maybe I could travel together with them for a while, on the other hand, there was Michael's experience. I was also unsure of how communication would be with the girls since I didn't know about everyones language expertise yet.

In the end the whole group walked together and we ended up following a false guide, because some of the girls apparently thought it would be a good idea. So not aware of the fact, that we already were in the medina, a boy was leading us to the medina.

He lead us through small backstreets and to a few shops one of them was a shop of leather wares and we could see the tannery of Fes from its roof - and smell it too.

Someone explained the process of tanning and a few pictures were taken. After that we we continued our tour, although at some point parts of our group wanted to get away from the false guide, somehow we still kept following even into the carpet shop of our guide's father. I did not want to enter the shop and stayed at the entrance with An(n)a at first, but after everyone else settled down and have been invited repeatedly, we gave up the resistance and sat down with the others.
The father of the guide then explained the carpet weaving process and Moroccan tea was served. Then he displayed many carpets for us to buy.

Even though nobody in the group needed (or wanted) to buy a carpet some of the girls were talking about buying one of the small carpets to get it over with and asked for prices.
After sitting around for at least an hour in this shop, I decided that this was enough and said I don't want to buy a carpet and left for the entrance, waiting there for the others. After a while the others followed without buying anything too.
The guide then talked with someone who presumably was his brother and it seems they were not too happy. Yet still they said everything was fine and he insisted on guiding us further. However after a few metres I and Michael decided to get away and move around without the guide. Then the girls wanted to be rid of the guide too and they decided to pay him 20 MAD.

To be continued..