Hi everyone, This is a few days late, but as you can see from this picture of CR dumped on the curb outside our house, we made it home safe and sound on Thursday. I’ve got a few more posts to put up still, but it’s back to work again tomorrow.
We had a busy day when we crossed over from Morocco to Spain–early morning ferry, run to rental car, quick jaunt to Gibraltar, and finally a mountainous drive to Ronda. With the need to return the rental car in Seville the next afternoon, that meant we had just less than an hour to explore Ronda. […]
For our final full day on Fez, we decided to hire a taxi for the day to go see some nearby sites. The first was Volubilis, the ruins of a Roman colony that was named a World Heritage Site in 1997. The Romans pulled out of Morocco in the 3rd Century AD, but a group […]
After leaving the frenetic Marrakesh, here’s my superficially favorite thing about Fez: No motorcycles in the medina! Instead of motorcycles, however, you do have to contend with these guys: I think the reason donkeys haven’t been overtaken by motorcycles in Fez like they have in Marrakesh is the fact that the Fez medina is hilly, […]
The last couple of days have mostly been spent in transit and I haven’t had great Internet access, so this will be a little short. Yesterday, we took a train from Fez to the port city of Tangier–just across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain. By the way, this is how we carry everything when […]
A few days ago, HT earned a $5 guitar for good behavior. (Karen was not really involved in this purchase because it’s kind of a stupid thing to pack without breaking.) Tonight, he was playing it (very manically) for his highly entertained brother: “HT, can you sing, ‘All I got is red guitar, three chords, […]
I’ll write more about the great time we’ve had in Fez sometime in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here are a couple of pictures from the place we’re staying at here. First, here’s the view from the stairwell leading up to our room (the entire place has one big covered courtyard […]
Yesterday was all about riding animals. Today, the focus was on man-made conveyances. We kicked it all off first thing in the morning when a porter came to carry our luggage from the hotel to our taxi. (We didn’t really need a porter for the seven minute walk, but it was a nice way to get […]
Going back a few days to Lisbon: this was my third time visiting and Karen’s second (and our second together)–all three visits were in March, and it rained for pretty much the entire duration of my first two trips, so we were delighted to find nothing but sunny, clear skies here. One of the reasons […]
Today was a long day–seven hours–on a train. One of the reasons Karen and I love to travel so much is there are lots of long stretches like this when you travel like we do, and they provide great opportunities to read. It used to be that we’d leave for a trip with a significant […]