“Orson Welles, Orson Welles
you’ve got a fat belly and your backside smells.”
Exotica (2) Maison de la Photographie, Marrakesh
Arévalo, Portrait of Hamidou, Tanger, 1885
46, Rue Souk Ahal Fassi, kaat Ben Nahi
9.30 to 7pm, 7 days, 40 MD
After hours of lefts and rights through the Marrakesh medina and hugging the wall to allow scooters to hurtle past being driven by elegant Moroccan women in mirrored aviator sunglasses listening to Beyoncé on their iPhones, we took a turn up the rue Ahal Fassi to the Maison de la Photographie. Continue reading
Exotica (1): Jardin Majorelle and Berber Museum, Marrakesh.
Rue Yves Saint Laurent
8pm to 6pm summer, 5.30pm winter; the museum closes earlier.
Gardens only 70DH; gardens + Berber Museum 100 DH.
Step through a door. Continue reading
Time (Boutaghrar, Valley of the Roses)
A small white camel drawn in a child’s hand at the top of a low arch on an adobe wall. Continue reading
Ode on an apple fritter (Erg Chebbi Dunes near Merzouga 31.08°N, 4.013° W)
O twice cooked pastry (pale brown), how camest thou,
by ochre dunes and gravel plains, hurried o’er roads Continue reading
Time: Yasmine’s heart (33.873°N, 5.540°W)
[this looks better on my site]
…is strong, so you must be strong to love her.
Many have tried but none lie as deep, as straight Continue reading
Dar Jamai Museum, Meknes, Morocco
(Place el-Hedim, admission 10Dh, Hours 10.00am to 6.00pm)
Despite the Lonely Planet describing Meknes, Morocco’s fourth imperial city as ‘quieter and smaller’ than Fes or Marrakesh, it is still a busy city of nearly one million people. Continue reading
Time (Chellah, Morocco 34.006° N, 6.821° W)
The Romans built on the ruins of the Phoenicians, Continue reading
Novelty
What could today’s traveller possibly add to what is already known about Casablanca? Continue reading
Breakfast Details
Alain de Botton in his book The Art of Travel (Hamish Hamilton, 2002) introduces John Ruskin a 19th Century English traveller, art critic and educator Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 