Morocco
On our way from Fez to the airport in Casablanca, we passed through the capital city of Rabat. On one side of the street was a magnificent new university, with chic architecture and soaring glass panels reflecting the Moroccan sky. On the opposite side of the street was a barefoot man with a donkey, working a field with a wooden plow.
That dichotomy is what I will remember most about Morocco. The past and present living in fascinating harmony.
Casablanca is a big industrial city, not a tourist destination and not the romantic desert Casbah portrayed in the movie.
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
We leave Morocco today and fly to the small African nation of São Tomé and Principe. What? Where? You ask!
That’s what I said when our travel agent suggested the equatorial African island nation as a destination. I had never heard of it.
Remember when I said that Ait Benhaddou in Morocco was as close as I will ever get to Timbuktu? Well, that’s not exactly correct, we will fly directly over Timbuktu in the middle of nowhere today.
At about noon, we will be 39,000’ from Timbuktu. Straight up.
Travel days aren’t conducive to writing and the WiFi on aircraft is owned by Elon Musk, so I don’t buy it. The next time I post we will be on both the Equator and the Prime Meridian, from the middle of nowhere, to…
… the centre of the world.
Before we left Fez, I captured a few more memories.
One end of the rainbow is in the old Medina of Fez, the other is in a graveyard. Guess which end I went digging for the gold.
No money? No Problem!
You must bring your own toilet paper to some Moroccan bathrooms. For others, you should bring your own toilet.
Mint tea with sugar, they call it “Moroccan Whiskey”.
A Djellaba. I don’t think I will wear mine on the streets of Millarville, but I look forward to coffee on the deck at home while wearing it.
“Traveling – it gives you a home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land” – Ibn Battuta
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