Casablanca

Took train from Fes to Casablanca, about half way back to Marrakech. This is a sophisticated, modern city with all the incumbent noise and crowds. The medina is clean and well-organized, nobody accosting me to buy the crap they are selling. If this was the only medina you visited in Morocco, you'd have a misleading impression!

Had a great meal at Restaurant du Port de Peche. Started with half dozen oysters from Oualidia, a place I was tempted to visit just for the oysters. Really nice. For main, filet of St Pierre au gratin - bits of meaty white fish baked with cheese over top. Just what I needed. And a really nice local red wine to go with.

Breakfast at La Scala - great coffee, finally, more Moroccan pastries, and eggs with camel meat. Yum.

The Hassan II Mosque: wow, enormous. Built by the king (Hassan II) between 1986 and 1993, architected by a non-Muslim Frenchman, it's the third largest mosque in the world. About a third of the mosque is built over water, a proportion that comes from the koran. Almost all materials come from Morocco, some of the places I have visited:
Cedar - Ifrane
Carpets - Rabat
Granite - Agadir (High Atlas)
Marble - Tiznit
Except chandeliers - Venice
Some columns - Italy
Enormous doors are titanium from Russia to be lightweight and withstand corrosion.
Main floor holds 20,000 (men)
Women's floor holds 5000
Niche is towards Mecca
Columns in ablution (washing) rooms are coated with Venetian plaster to absorb humidity.
There is a beautiful hammam that has never been used - always "next year".