Recent Posts Tagged With 'bahia palace'

• Brideshead Revisited

  Posted on Wednesday August 6th, 2008 at 06:34 in bahia palace, brideshead

  Last night I went to see the new film version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited at the arts cinema in Huntington on Long Island. I first read the book more than 30 years ago and was amazingly impressed by it.I had quite forgotton the bit set in ...

• Yellow in Marrakech

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 06:08 in yellow, bahia palace, souks, shopping dyes souks marrakech style

  Back to left over photos by me.........This post is for Mrs.Nesbitt's ABC Wednesday Y.Yellow cloth drying in the Dyers' Souk.The lovely yellow urn at the Jardin Majorelle and the lily pond.Flowers against the yellow tadelekt in the courtyard of the ...

• Light Falls........

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 10:41 in architecture, maroc, shadows, bahia palace

  ................on a House on Rue Prince Moulay Rachid just off the main square. I love the soft green of the window frames.A palm tree casts a wonderful reflection over the front door......This is the bank next to the previous house. The interior is...

• Monday Morning at the Bahia Palace

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 08:59 in decor, maids, bahia palace

  If you get to things very early, before the hordes of tourists appear, everything is lovely and peaceful.The best part of the palace is the most distant.Looking from the courtyard into the furthest garden.............where young women were cleaning t...

• Looking Upwards

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 06:42 in maroc, decor, light, ceilings, bahia palace, micahaelangelo

  Moroccan ceilings are very often elaborately decorated.I used to think that they were painted in situ - like Michaelangelo did the Sistine Chapel.But, in fact,they are painted at ground level and then put up later.These first two pictures are from Da...