16 Saturday May 2009
Today’s Photohunter theme is “painted”.
Morocco’s famous “blue village”, Asilah, is a slow and friendly place with a colourful Medina that caters mostly to Moroccan tourists. During the month of August, artists from around the world come to Asilah and paint wonderful murals on the white walls throughout the medina. This is a pic I took of my friend Susan (aka Pipocas) in front of one of the painted walls when we went to Morocco last February.
To see more photos of Asilah & Tangier click here.
05 Thursday Mar 2009
This is the rug I bought in Asilah last month – isn’t it pretty?
In fact, you can actually see it in this pic, on the left hand side near the table. It’s taken me this long to figure out what to do with it. Well, first of all I had to drape it outside over the balcony railing for about a week to air it out (not sure about washing it as I’m worried the colours might run) and then I tried it out in a couple of rooms. But rugs and plants don’t seem to do very well within reach of “the boys”, so I finally decided to hang it on the wall in the hallway between the livingroom and bedroom…
21 Saturday Feb 2009
Posted in friends, health & happiness, home, hope, life stuff, love, morocco
This is my sister Susan (aka Pipocas)
There’s the family you’re born into and the family you choose. It started off as kind of a joke, telling the doctors at the private hospital that Susan was my sister so that they would let her visit that first night I was admitted for observation last May. Then we decided to maintain the ruse after I was transferred to Virgen del Rocío hospital for the emergency colon resection. Sometime between then and I’m not sure when, it turned out that we actually were sisters…
18 Wednesday Feb 2009
It was the best trip of my life.
Susan and I left on Friday morning to drive down to Tarifa and catch the fast ferry (35 minutes) to Tangier. We got there in plenty of time to have coffee and toast at the aptly named Carpe Diem café, and then made our way to the port across the street. Arriving at the port in Tangier was the beginning of a four-day adventure that was nothing I could have imagined …
17 Tuesday Feb 2009
When Pip and I were in Tangier this past (long) weekend we ate at the Hamadi Restaurant twice. They have a wonderful group of musicians there who play delightful music while you dine. This was taken on our second visit – the guys already “knew” us by then and were happy to appear in a video. I told them I was going to make them famous. 🙂
Here’s something to listen to while you patiently wait for me to organise my photos.
casa azahar 