When we arrived in Casablanca we haggled with a taxi driver to take us straight to the Hassan II Mosque, which is the second largest religious building in the world (behind the mosque at Mecca). The photos don’t do it justice at all. From there, Paul checked out the art gallery while Frankie and I […]
Read more "Casablanca"Day two in Marrakech begins with breakfast on the roof of our riad. Afterwards, we make our way through the rush of the souk to the museum of Marrakech. There wasn’t a lot inside, but the architecture was reason enough to visit: the building used to be a royal palace. After lunch, we visited the […]
Read more "Day Two in Marrakech"Our eight day trip around Morocco starts off in Marrakech. We’re staying at Riad Hala, a tiny family run place just a few tight alleyways away from the main town square. Frankie and Paul in front of the door to our riad Morocco is culturally the farthest I’ve ever been from home. I’ve learned that […]
Read more "Marrakech"Navigating the backstreets of a Spanish island in a manual hatchback with no map should be a recipe for disaster. I was perplexed to rock up at the terminal hours early without so much as a missed turnoff. There was that gnawing feeling that something was about to go wrong. EZ8634 – DELAYED. They put […]
Read more "Life Lesson #33 – Delayed Off"We took our little suitcases with us to work on Friday, and just hours after the long weekend began we were in the air. Sunset as we approached the coast of France was so vivid it looked like a lava explosion. Majorca is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean. It’s a two and a half […]
Read more "A Weekend in Majorca"I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for ages. Like any self respecting theatre freak, I find myself drawn to the the Edinburgh Fringe Festival like a mozzie to one of those lights that zaps them. If only I had made it. I planned the weekend to a degree of precision I believe they call […]
Read more "Life Lesson #32- The Trip to Nowhere"Wales is the closest thing I’ve seen to New Zealand green since moving to Europe. We were invited to come and spend the weekend with Emily at her boyfriend Corin’s family home in Lampeter, along with their friends Tom and Laura. After narrowly making it onto the train at Paddington Station at an ungodly hour […]
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