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North Africa
Marrakesh Express
I've been saving all my money just to take you there
I smell the garden in your hair
Take the train from Casablanca going south
Blowing smoke rings from the corner of my mouth
Coloured cottons hang in the air,
Charming cobras in the square
Stripped djellebas we can wear at home
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Last Stop: Fes (by Vienna)
... and rust red paprika. The air was flavorful and thick. Also in that market, olives were stacked in artful displays of black, green, and burgundy, and there were little pots of black soap available for sale. Black soap is actually not black, but a greenish-brown color. It’s slightly grainy and waxy, almost slimy, and doesn’t come in a bar, but instead in a jar. The Moroccan people use it in their hammam (steam bath and scrub to remove dead skin) ...
La Tourista in Fes :-)
... and relaxed for a while, then David came up and invited me to go for dinner with him and 2 other guys (father and son) from Cardiff, Caerphilly to be precise. I took on the offer, they had chosen a restaurant but as we were leaving, Youssef recommended a restaurant so he took us there, through the back alleys, of course!
It was a nice place with a terrace overlooking the Medina and it was not over priced either which was good. We had a very nice evening!
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Camel for dinner?
... has fragile wooden galleries overlooking a cobbled courtyard. And altho’ I did get lost a few times, after shaking off some young leeching would-be guides, I managed to find the Derb Chouwara.
After another man shoo-ed off the leeches, he took me up some higher terraces to look down over the Derb Chouwara tanneries. Reputed to be the largest of all the tanneries in Morocco, I was simply here to observe a bigger and more varied tannery than that seen ...
A Cooking Class in Fes
... brick and or cobblestone and are lined with vendors on both sides. The walls are no more than 8 feet wide, where donkeys, people, mopeds and in some areas, petite taxis all share the same space. Here is an excerpt from Lowell’s perspective:
"Getting lost in a souk is a given, not just turned around, but jungle lost! I don’t believe that even a Garmin can help you in these cities. Thankfully today we were following Katima and didn’t need ...


