Trip: Kentucky,Istanbul,Morocco,Carcassone,Amsterdam
There are [20] stories from my trip: Kentucky,Istanbul,Morocco,Carcassone,Amsterdam
MOROCCO | Sunday, 11 May 2014 | Photo Gallery
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NETHERLANDS | Thursday, 24 Apr 2014 | Views [284]
OK tie to wrap this up since it's now been 3 months since i came home!
we continued to have a bangup time in Carcassone with Jesse and Georgette and Koos, and then used a HUGE old suitcase of Georgette's to avoid any more luggage traumas (again had ... Read more >
FRANCE | Tuesday, 22 Apr 2014 | Views [250]
will make this a short entry since i realize i've now been back from the trip almost 3 months, and it's time to wrap up this blog!
we had a lovely 4 days with Jesse and Georgette, and Koos who came down from Limoges, and of course Indy the dog
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FRANCE | Sunday, 20 Apr 2014 | Views [279]
we very sadly bade adieu to Riad Snan 13 and drove to the airport in Marrakech, thankfully allowing plenty of time - this was the first (shudder) economy flight i had taken in a very very long time, so i had anticipated the worst - and sure ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Saturday, 19 Apr 2014 | Views [326]
lahsen came to get us in the late morning for the 3-hour drive to marrakech - we had a hankering for a bottle of wine for our last night in morocco and actually had bought another bottle before the desert - but when we asked lahsen if he had found ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Friday, 18 Apr 2014 | Views [382]
essaouira used to be portuguese (called mogador) and definitely feels quite mediterranean - interestingly, spanish is still a semi-official language (some traffic signs are in arabic french and spanish) and it's spoken by about 5 million moroccans, ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Friday, 18 Apr 2014 | Views [414]
we arrived in Taroudant late in the afternoon after a very very long drive - so pooped that we didn't leave the riad at all which was very sad, as we discovered when we finally went up to the rooftop terrace in the evening (after a refreshing dip in ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Thursday, 17 Apr 2014 | Views [411]
it seems now i'm back home, that every time i turn around i see something about argan, but i have to say that before going to morocco i had barely heard of it - it's a very hard nut that contains oily seeds and has to be cracked pretty much by hand (between ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Thursday, 17 Apr 2014 | Views [381]
we set our phones to wake us at 5:45 for our camel ride at sunrise - so so cool - the shadows from the dunes were otherworldly, the full moon was sinking into the west and there was no sound aside from the camels' hooves on the sand - our guide/cameldriver ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014 | Views [369]
and now for another drive - fortunately we think Lahsen took a nap during the wedding while we were shaking our booties in the women's section - because he now took the 4x4 completely off road to cross the desert - absolutely no tracks to show the way ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014 | Views [434]
Lahsen had mentioned a couple of times that we would be going to a marriage, but i assumed it was a tourist exhibition - NOT!
it was his family's village in the desert and it was incredible -
oh but first i have to report 1 small thing ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Monday, 14 Apr 2014 | Views [375]
we had another longish drive from Ourzazate (1 issue there was that i was running out of Moroccan money, and had a feeling that ATMs were going to be tough to find amongst the sand dunes - so i went looking for a bank machine - Mohamed at Dar Kamar made ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Sunday, 13 Apr 2014 | Views [339]
the wedding in the village did keep us awake for much of the night - plus worrying about our luggage really has affected us - it is true that we are healthy and in a wonderful place where people are so kindly taking care of us - but still, it is hard ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Saturday, 12 Apr 2014 | Views [339]
Lahsen picked us up at the riad to start our journey into the real Morocco - Fazia from Journey Beyond mentioned that we had booked a more 'rustic' itinerary than most people do (at Alan's excellent suggestion - this meant that we skipped Fez and Rabat ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Friday, 11 Apr 2014 | Views [326]
we should have perhaps gone to the Majorelle Gardens and/or had a horse carriage ride at sunset - but i for one had NO sleep (probably still obsessing about lost luggage) and wound up going downstairs to the courtyard in the middle of the night and trying ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Thursday, 10 Apr 2014 | Views [384]
after a lovely breakfast (these were always included in the riad and usually were nice breads with jam butter and Nutella, plus fresh fruit, plus eggs if desired, and a kind of Moroccan small crepe that was sometimes a little sweet and sometimes not ... Read more >
MOROCCO | Wednesday, 9 Apr 2014 | Views [311]
we had a pretty good flight on Turkish Airlines from Istanbul to Casablanca, although as is apparently TK's habit, they changed aircraft on us and instead of a nice spacious business class seat we got the more constrained seat, where really the only ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 8 Apr 2014 | Views [306]
we flew from the very small airport at LEX/Lexington to O'Hare and then to Istanbul in Business Class on Turkish Airlines - 3 words to describe our flight FAB-U-LOUS! contrary to reports in many online reviews, our crew could not have been sweeter ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 8 Apr 2014 | Views [344] | Comments [1]
hope this comes thru in the right place - i have a really hard time with Macs!! (and for that reason cannot append a photo yet)
Kelly got us tickets to the Clubhouse at Keeneland yesterday - it was the 3rd day of a 3-week meeting and ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 3 Apr 2014 | Views [312]
for months now i've been planning a trip to morocco, after years of dreaming of going to morocco - i have very high hopes since almost every single person i've met who's been there has loved the country and the people and the food and the landscapes ... Read more >
