Villa Jawhara Meknes

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... family, friends and servants for his cause. At one point, he had 10,000 skulls hung around the capitol to offer intimidation to prospective enemies.

He perfected the slave trade, accumulating at least 25,000 Christian slaves and 30,000 other prisoners whom he used to construct his capital at Meknes, excepting the ones that he gladly sold back to his enemies for inflated returns. He also added more than 100,000 ...

... We stopped on the way to Voubilis (amusingly the latin translation for 'Morning Glory') at a couple of scenic spots for the inevitable pictures. Having arrived at the Roman ruins, we were already gunshy and turned down the guide out of hand, although perhaps on hindsight some strong bargaining might have been preferable. Yet another reason to despise the bargaining culture, it meant even ...

... we headed for the train station and the seven hour trip. We ran into Loubna, the young woman that we shared a train car with on the way down to Marrakech, who was returning home to Casablanca after visiting her sister.  She joined us on the train, chatting non-stop in a mixture of French and English the whole four hour journey to Casablanca, telling us all about her boss (a jerk that briefly courted her), her future husband (met online, he's from ...

... We're on our way up to Meknes and Fes, where we'll spend a few days. Then we're going to take a train to Nador in the northeast, near the Algerian border then take the ferry from Melilla to Almeria in southeast Spain. We'll cycle back towards Malaga and meet Dave's sister in Torre at the end of October. We're both craving other people's company. We haven't met a single person we like and had a decent conversation since we were ...

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... most were still 'complet' from Semana Santa holiday goers, but alas, found a nice little 1930's establishment "in constant state of renovation", as the concierge informed us. Headed into the old town medina to check out the souqs that Meknes had to offer - found them to be more geared toward the local folk than tourists, with an unending supply of cheap as chips style wares for sale. After discovering a rather awesome sandwich bar around the corner where we downed shawerma, frites ...

... as though it was done by machine. It was fascinating to watch. The clothing in Meknes was a mixture of traditional and Western, with some women and girls covering their heads and others not. As well as exploring the souqs and observing the daily life in Meknes, we also went to see the Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail. It is a beautifully decorated monument with lots of intricate detailing.

... distance. I'm sorry, but I just had to clarify. So anyway, the sweets are actually worth facing death. They have pastry and chocolate types with date, fig and nut concoctions as fillings. There are a zillion different permutations of baklava with tasty ground pistachios, honey drizzles and delicate layers of pastry. The favourite has to be the almond meal stuffed crescent pastry. Not sure what it's called, but they are delicious (and about 1 dirham ...

Premier réveil au soleil. C'est complètement différent de se réveiller avec cette luminosité. C'est agréable ! On part pour les Haras. Les chevaux sont superbes, même si on y connaît rien ! Les ânes aussi d'ailleurs ! C'est dommage, on ne peux pas voir les juments parce qu'on a pas d'autorisation. C'était pas écrit sur le guide du routard (héhé) ! Au retour, on s'arrête manger dans un resto qui n'est pas super, mais on mange pour 23euros pour 8 personnes ! On dépose André qui est ...