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The House in Marrakesh
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Life in a 500 year old house in Marrakech's medina. rnLots of photos.
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Riad al Madina/Essouira
We have stayed at the Riad Al Madina very often over the last ten years and always found it very comfortable.Years ago people like Jimi Hendrix were meant to have stayed there.A few years ago they did it up a bit too "Pier One Imports" but even so it...
Floors Galore...........and an Ending
Until I started looking through all my recent photos, I didn't realize how many pictures of floors I had. So this is a selection.The first from the Bahia Palace - my shabby-chic heaven.The second, as you can guess from the color of the window frames,...
At Home............
The little fountain in the courtyard serves as a sort of focal point........Rather like a mantelpiece. The strange brown thing is a Berber tent accessory - hard to explain - anyway a present from a friend who went to the desert.As summer approaches ...
Essouira Abstract
This is a post about details........all these photos were taken last week in Essouirawhere we slept at the Riad alMadina. right in the middle of town. We have stayed here off and on for the last ten years.There were roses in both the fountains in the...
Monday Morning at the 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...
Stairs and a Field Trip
A decorative gold staircase in an art gallery.Who would have thought?Pink marble stairs. It would be rather lovely to have something exciting to look at every time one went up and down.These are in Gueliz at our notaire's office.Yellow and black is r...
Gracious Hosts in the Countryside
There is a huge walled garden full of old olive trees and a long drive bordered by luxuriant roses.Some of the roses need dead-heading to make more and better ones - even though there are plenty already.The old-bat English lady-gardener in me determ...
More Details
These first two photos are from Maison Tiskiwin, Bert Flint's House off rue riad zitoun laKadim.He has an astounding collection of textiles and artifacts from all areas of the Sahara collected over many years and well documented.Our friend R., who ha...
Animal Tiles
These tiles were all made by the same craftsman whose little shop is between the two rue riad Zitouns.We have been visiting his shop for ten years and are enchanted with his images.He spends much of his time making markers for tombs.This camel doesn'...
Food
Food is both a great pleasure and a great bore depending on how you look at it.We all - almost all - love eating it.It's less interesting planning it and shopping for it - unless that's how you want to spend your day. This is a little 'hanut' in the ...
Looking Upwards
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...
