Category: Morocco

Every Moroccan lunch or dinner starts with “mezze”, which can loosely be described as a salad course. The typical mezze that we have been served ranges from six to eight separate items served cold as a first course, all fresh and all delicious. We have had carrots prepared with any number of different spice combinations…

Today was a “repositioning” day (Fez to Marrakesh, 8 hour bus ride), and yesterday’s pictures haven’t been reviewed yet, so this will be a “ruminating” post. In the “one world” category, one of the things that we understand is happening in Fez is a sort of “gentrification” (although they don’t call it that).  Many of…

The medina (medina means “old city”) in Fez is a spaghetti-strand collection of 15,000 tiny streets laid out in no discernible pattern, with no GPS system on earth capable of navigating one through this maze of twisting lanes and blind alleys. Only local residents of a given neighborhood are allowed to serve as postmen; if…

Day one was not really a “day” in the strict sense of the word. We departed Philly at 1 PM Friday on the shuttle to JFK, and flew overnight into Casablanca, arriving about 7:45 AM. We then “hit the road” on our charter motorcoach, arriving at our first night’s lodging about 6 PM Saturday evening,…

A few interesting little “factoids” about Morocco, before we board our flight and actually land in this interesting country. First of all, despite the witty title, a kasbah is not really a spot for nightlife, but a place of refuge. According to Wikepedia, a kasbah “is a place for the local leader to live and as…

Here is the tentative itinerary for my ten day exploration of Morocco:  Day 1 –  depart JFK on Royal Air Maroc enroute to Casablanca  Day 2 –  Arrive Casablanca, bus to Rabat, then on to Fez  Day 3 –  Fez  Day 4 –  Meknes, then to Volubilis  Day 5 –  through the Atlas Mountains to Ifrane, then…