You’re going to crave slow roasted chicken, beef, or lamb tajines on the rooftops overlooking Morocco, the fresh and perfectly seasoned roasted vegetables, and the happiness of knowing that while Calvin is blogging, he’s not eating, so there’s more to go around… The warm, fresh bread that came out with every meal, [...]
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You’re Going to Crave It…
Friday, January 20th, 2012Running into Gerard Butler…again
Wednesday, January 4th, 20121st time is happenstance, 2nd time is coincidence… Let it be known that Gerard Butler now reads this blog, and I quote from June (left in photo): “It was funny how he mentioned he had read The Monsoon Diaries, because he kept saying how he usually doesn’t look into these things that mention him. I also mentioned [...]
You’re going to miss it…
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012You’re going to miss the freedom of wandering, the days that begun with nothing to expect, the trust in what’s around the corner, the feeling of wanderlust, the time when you were free to do anything that you wanted. You’re going to miss rambling about the traffic-free streets of Las Ramblas, the [...]
Gerard Butler is in Marrakech
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Usually I would resort to these titles to grab your attention, but if you look at the picture above, you’ll see it’s more than a gimmick. It’s for real: 5 minutes ago we ran into Gerard Butler in the maze of souks within the Marrakech medina. Being born, raised and having lived in Manhattan for [...]
New Year’s in Marrakesh
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Sunset over Marrakesh Marrakesh… …is a name of a song from my childhood. A nine letter word that existed only as melodies of an ATB track from the days of high school. Not until now could I attribute it to an actual place on Earth, in a sliver of land named Morocco. And not until [...]
Fantastically Fez
Sunday, January 1st, 2012Yiru like heads. We ended up fixing our mistake and putting ourselves back on track. From Kenitra, we got on the 6:35am train heading to Fez, and got off 2 hours later at 8:30am. Fez train station Leaving the station That was when Lonely Planet fails us again. It said that there would be [...]
From Spain to Morocco
Sunday, January 1st, 2012A few minutes after crossing back in and out of Gibraltar, we took a relatively cheap (2.15 euros) 30min bus ride from La Linea de Concepcion (Spain’s border town by Gibraltar) to the Spanish port town of Algeciras. There’s really nothing much to see here. But the whole point of this place is to take [...]
Missed Connections
Thursday, December 29th, 2011The good news is that we accomplished the challenge of making it to 3 countries/sovereignties in a single day. We got in and out of Gibraltar and got to see the Rock, we made it to the Algeciras ferry to Morocco, and we caught the 9:35pm train to Fez 5 minutes before departure. Oh, and there’s [...]
