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souks, spices and stories, oh my!
1/12/09 – Fes, Morocco Midnight or thereabouts Barbarically early call to prayer aside, we willfully ignored the alarm and slept soundly until 10:00am, at which point the sounds of clinking dishes...
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“OI! Ten thousand years will give you SUCH a crick in the neck!”
1/13/09 – Fes, Morocco 11:50pm Oh, call to prayer, you predictable yet vile mistress. Awoke at 5am again to the deafening siren blare of Koran verses, whose chants were unusually virulent and...
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cultural immersion 101
1/14/09 – Fes, Morocco 11:00pm We didn’t get a chance to confirm breakfast time with our hosts last night, but suspected that the dishes would start clinking around 10:00am, and…victory! Fresh-baked...
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hey mohammed, don’t i know you from somewhere?
1/15/09 – Fes, Morocco 11:30pm 10:00am, Greenwich Mean Time: the Bread Buffet strikes again. Haven’t these people ever heard of fruit salad? But, like a bridge troll, I ate everyone’s madeleines....
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country bumpkins, meet the big city
1/16/09 – Fes/Rabat, Morocco 11:25pm A troublesome hypothesis: I was either more dog-tired and wonky than I thought, or genuinely getting acclimated, because I was barely disturbed by...
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Rocking the Casbah in Rabat, Morocco
1/17/09 – Rabat 11:00pm I awoke on time for once, but Bob and Katie did not…so I got ready and tried to be quiet, which is kind of like Oprah dieting – futile, problematic and generally ending in...
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“you must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss…”
1/18/09 – Rabat/Casablanca, Morocco 12:15am We awoke to a stunningly beautiful morning in Rabat – this time all 3 of us were up and at breakfast simultaneously (OK, that’s it – I have officially HAD...
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“i think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship…”
1/19/09 - seat 22A, over Spain 8:00am GMT We stumbled out of bed with a slim 20 minutes to get ready to ship back to the U.S. A shuttle was coming to pick us up at the hotel, so we rushed around...
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Moroccan Musings: a list of cultural observations for the North African novice
From the pie to the sky there was a lot to see and look at over these 10 days, and through my jaded Western eyes it was indeed a Whole New World. If you plan on traveling to Morocco or are just...
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Of All The Gin Joints In All The World…
Image from Los Angeles Citysipper.com Last week on a cool, California summer evening at Malibu Winery, beneath a blanket of stars and over a couple of bottles of sauvignon blanc, my friends and I...
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