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Exotica (1): Jardin Majorelle and Berber Museum, Marrakesh.

Blue wall

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 →

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March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Time (Boutaghrar, Valley of the Roses)

Camel on wall

A small white camel drawn in a child’s hand at the top of a low arch on an adobe wall. Continue reading →

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March 20, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
Moroccotravel

Ode on an apple fritter (Erg Chebbi Dunes near Merzouga 31.08°N, 4.013° W)

Moroccan donut

O twice cooked pastry (pale brown), how camest thou,
by ochre dunes and gravel plains, hurried o’er roads Continue reading →

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March 18, 2017July 13, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Time: Yasmine’s heart (33.873°N, 5.540°W)

Yasmine's heart

[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 →

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March 13, 2017March 26, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Dar Jamai Museum, Meknes, Morocco

Courtyard museum

(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 →

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March 12, 2017March 13, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Time (Chellah, Morocco 34.006° N, 6.821° W)

image

The Romans built on the ruins of the Phoenicians, Continue reading →

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March 12, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Novelty

Pigeon on wall Casablanca
What could today’s traveller possibly add to what is already known about Casablanca? Continue reading →

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March 10, 2017March 13, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Breakfast Details

Airline breakfast beauty

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 →

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March 9, 2017April 5, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Getting ready (Feb. 2017)

desert

[this looks so much better on my site]

  • Consolidate all necessary paperwork (tickets, visas, vouchers) into robust fiche to be carried on person at all times. Continue reading →
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February 21, 2017March 20, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Wineglass Bay, E. Tas, (42.13°S 148.31°E)

Wineglass bay 1875

[This looks so much better on my site]

… is someone’s beach-idea perfected in whale-bone Continue reading →

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February 19, 2017February 27, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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