Wordless Wednesdays….Chellah Ruins, Rabat
Admin on Mar 10 2010 | Filed under: History, Photographs, Travel, Travel
Admin on Mar 10 2010 | Filed under: History, Photographs, Travel, Travel
Admin on Jan 27 2010 | Filed under: Markets, Photographs, Shopping, Travel, Travel
Admin on Jan 20 2010 | Filed under: Culture, Photographs, Travel, Travel
Admin on Jan 13 2010 | Filed under: Food, Food, Gluten Free, People, Photographs, Sweet, Travel
There has been an unlikely combination of events and food in our life over the last week, things that shouldn’t rightly be together but just happened to be….snow and strawberries…
Morocco seems to have joined the rest of the Northern Hemisphere in the big chill and this last weekend we had a great time going to [...]
Admin on Jan 05 2010 | Filed under: Food, Food, Photographs, Savoury, Spanish Food, Travel
Happy New Year everyone!! May it be a wonderful year for all of you and your families!
Well back to school, back to life and back to normality for us here in Morocco. It was a very short break for us but we did manage to do a day trip or two and a quick trip [...]
Admin on Aug 07 2009 | Filed under: Food, Savoury
Shopping in rural Mozambique generally means going down to the local market and selecting the best of what’s on offer. Usually chickens and a range of fresh vegetables are available in most places.
One of the dishes that is synonymous with Mozambique for me has to be
Piri-Piri Chicken or Frango Piri-Piri as it is locally known. [...]
Admin on May 23 2009 | Filed under: Culture, History, Photographs, Travel
One of my favourite places in Rabat has to be down on the promenade on the banks of the Bouregreg River, where you look up at the Kasbah des Oudaias.
It’s the amazing walls of the Kasbah looming over the river…
the little boats ferrying people between Salé and Rabat for 1 Dh,
the children enjoying the sunshine [...]
Admin on May 20 2009 | Filed under: Food, Moroccan Food, Savoury
Whichever way you prefer to spell it, Tagine along with couscous, has to be one of the dishes most synonymous with Moroccan cuisine. In Morocco it is mostly spelt tagine.
Couscous is traditionally prepared on Fridays, whilst tagine is eaten pretty much on a daily basis. Tagine refers both to the pottery dish with a conical [...]
Admin on May 11 2009 | Filed under: Food, Moroccan Food, Photographs, Travel
So, sadly as all good things do, our lovely long weekend came to an end and it was time to head home. We waved a fond farewell to the lovely staff at the Ksar Bicha….
and had a last glimpse of the dunes bathing in the morning sun and got on our merry way….
Admin on May 10 2009 | Filed under: Moroccan Food, Photographs, Travel
Time to move on after a wonderful lunch……
….. Fossils……
This area is full of them and you see them being sold all along the roadside in all shapes and sizes. We visited an area with fossils beds, where natural fossils, millions of years-old are found. I am certainly not a geology expert of any sort and [...]