Category Archives: travel

morocco calling…

28 Thursday May 2009

Posted by in morocco, travel, trips

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mamounia hotel

Every since Pip and I went to Tangier & Asilah last February I have been wanting to go back to Morocco. And this past week in particular I have felt Morocco calling me back after seeing two interesting Twitter updates about  Marrakech.

First I read about the famous Mamounia Hotel (photo above) selling off its furnishings at an auction this past weekend. They are doing renovations and are planning to reopen in September. And then I saw that RyanAir was offering round trip tickets Sevilla-Marrakech (6-13 July) for 8 euros! I almost wept with frustrated desire. But oh well.

Other than the fact that I have no income and no bank balance at the moment, I reckoned that July probably wasn’t the best time to visit Marrakech. Plus, I don’t think going to Africa while on chemo would be the wisest move. But I am definitely going to keep an eye on RyanAir offers for when I am better (both physically & financially). Perhaps October?

painted

16 Saturday May 2009

Posted by in morocco, photohunt, photos, travel, trips

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painted

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.

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my sevilla in national geographic!

16 Thursday Apr 2009

Posted by in photos, sevilla, spain, tapas, travel, twitter, websites

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triana

To my surprise and delight National Geographic Intelligent Traveller blog has published my contribution to their I Heart My City series. You just copy & paste their list of questions into an email and return it to them with your responses. Which I did. But it was still very exciting when I saw Marilyn Res’s tweet announcing it yesterday.

My fifteen minutes of fame. 🙂

I Heart My City: Shawn’s Seville