Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
The High Seas || Tangier, Morocco to Algeciras, Spain
I didn’t actually end up getting the ferry from Tangier but instead from a port called Tangier Med, some 40 kilometres along the Moroccan Mediterranean Coast from Tangier. Ferries from Tangier only go to Tarifa in Spain and I wanted to be nearer Gibraltar once I made...
Tangier, Morocco
O ne night. I hadn't planned on only spending one night in Tangier, my last stop on my 39-day Moroccan adventure, but one night is all it's getting. The northwest can be an intense introduction to Morocco, encompassing the two Moroccan cities -...
Tétouan, Morocco
I 've just arrived in Tétouan, my penultimate stop in Morocco. This is the pretty agreeable view from the balcony of my room, room 11, in the Pension Iberia, overlooking the Ville Nouvelle's Place Moulay El Mehdi....
Chefchaouen, Morocco
D o any pre-arrival research on Morocco – where to go, what to see etc. – and you’re eventually going to read about & see pictures from blue & white Chefchaouen where I've just spent the last three nights. There’s not a whole lot to this place - a large town...
Fes, Morocco
F es was nowhere near as exhausting as it could have been. I guess I was prepared, having already spent 31 days in Morocco before arriving in the city, one of Morocco's 4 imperial capital cities, a few days ago. It has been a fun few days not to mention a photographic...
Moulay Idriss, Morocco
I was initially only planning on a day trip to Moulay Idriss, a small village some 30 kilometres from Meknes in northern Morocco. But a last-minute decision to pack up my stuff and spend a night here instead was made in Meknes yesterday morning over breakfast, a...
Volubilis, Morocco
A fertile plain in northern Morocco is a bit of a strange, random place to find a Roman outpost but the remnants left standing here today at Morocco’s best preserved archaeological site leave us in no doubt that yes indeed, the Romans were here nice and snug in their...
Meknes, Morocco
Y esterday I was among the Erg Chebbi dunes of the Moroccan Sahara and today I’m in a city, that city being Meknes, one of Morocco’s 4 imperial capitals (the others being Marrakesh, Fes, my next stop, & Rabat, the present-day capital)....
Circuit Touristique, Rissani, Morocco
I'm in Midelt, a town in central Morocco in the high plains between the Middle Atlas and High Atlas mountain ranges. There's not a whole lot going on here - I'm stopping off for the night en route to Meknes, my next stop in Morocco - and I'm taking it easy after a...
Erg Chebbi, Morocco
Camels, sandstorms & the picturesque rolling dunes of Erg Chebbi of the Moroccan Sahara, a highlight of any visit to the country.
Cannes, Côte d’Azur, France || Five To-dos
Glitzy Cannes on France’s Mediterranean Côte d'Azur, known in English as the French Riviera, is a destination de rigueur for the celebrity set. A favourite hangout of royalty & artists in days gone by, today the town is famous for the film festival that has been...
Morocco || Getting Around
I'm in a town called Er Rachidia in northeastern Morocco. I'm not a million miles (60 kilometres or so) from the closed border with Algeria & even closer to the Moroccan Sahara, my next port of call on this my ongoing Moroccan odyssey. The last week of Moroccan...
Dades & Todra Gorge, Morocco
I've been off the radar for a few days. It’s not like I was off the beaten track & out in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't, it just felt that way. Since I left the hammada landscape of Ouarzazate a few days ago, I have spent 2 nights in two different Moroccan...
Ait Benhaddou, Morocco
Kasbah, found throughout the Moroccan pre-Saharan southern oasis & especially in the regions fertile date palm oases & valleys, are typically fortified citadels, something like a castle where everyone could take refuge in times of trouble. Amazingly these...