Wordless Wednesdays….Chellah Ruins, Rabat
Admin on Mar 10 2010 | Filed under: History, Photographs, Travel, Travel
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Weeks….
Admin on Jan 31 2010 | Filed under: Markets, Photographs, Shopping, Travel, Travel
So it seems my Wordless Wednesday has slowly morphed into a wordless week!!! I have a list of excuses as long as my arm for not blogging, but wont bore you with the details!
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to make a serious attempt at learning a new language, so Monday morning bright an [...]
Wordless Wednesdays, Fountains and Tassles…..
Admin on Jan 27 2010 | Filed under: Markets, Photographs, Shopping, Travel, Travel
Souks, Saffron and Stuffing……
Admin on Jan 22 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Food, Food, Markets, Moroccan Food, Photographs, Recipe Books, Savoury, Travel, Travel
I have longed to go to Essaouira since we arrived in Morocco almost two years ago. So as you may know we finally got to go down that way on New Year’s Day. Well, it was everything people said it was and more! What a gorgeous place, not even the debris on the beach from [...]
Wordless Wednesdays…..Kasbah des Oudayas, Rabat
Admin on Jan 20 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Photographs, Travel, Travel
Merry Christmas……
Admin on Dec 23 2009 | Filed under: Photographs, Travel, Travel
Once again my good intentions of baking beautiful things, cooking and photographing and of course blogging all whilst looking as cool and collected as Nigella have fallen by the wayside, and instead there seems to be the usual chaotic rush preparing for Christmas, wrapping presents and getting everything else organised for our Christmas Eve dinner [...]
Souks and Sardines….
Admin on Dec 11 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Markets, People, Photographs, Savoury, Shopping, Travel, Travel
I have really been neglecting this blog of mine over the last few weeks. It just seems a combination of sick children; cold weather and life in general have been getting in the way of all my good intentions of cooking and blogging! Enough excuses though…..
I took a trip down to the Rabat Medina yesterday [...]
Chicken and Fennel Tagine…..
Admin on Nov 03 2009 | Filed under: Food, Food, Gluten Free, Markets, Moroccan Food, People, Photographs, Savoury, Shopping, Travel, Travel
One of my favourite places here in Rabat is the Rabat Medina. It is a wonderful place to have a stroll about, looking at little odds and ends without the hassle that you get in some of the larger medinas in Morocco.
There is one little courtyard that has a trader I have come to know [...]
Horses and Hospitality…..
Admin on Sep 27 2009 | Filed under: Culture, Food, Moroccan Food, Photographs, Travel, Travel
Saturday was a strange day, not starting quite as we had planned but turned into one of those days that will be etched into our memories forever!
Our local village was hosting their annual fantasia festival this Saturday. It was off to a rocky start with a morning of thunder showers, but nothing was going to [...]
A little bit of Spain in Africa…
Admin on Sep 22 2009 | Filed under: Culture, Food, Gluten Free, Photographs, Savoury, Spanish Food, Travel
On the Northern tip of Morocco, just east of Tangier, where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, there is a little piece of Spain called Ceuta, in fact further along the coast there is another one as well known as Melilla. The closest for us is Ceuta or Sebta as it is sometimes known in Morocco. [...]
