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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2014
About 100 kilometers south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast sits Tarragona, a city of 135,000 people well known for its Roman ruins. Tarragona, or “Tarraco”, was captured by the Romans in 217 or 218 B.C. and became an important strategic hub, given its location on the Mediterranean; the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus (62 B.C. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2014
This is the last in my four-part Moroccan Odyssey series, the quadra-blog that will never end, sorry. The drive from the Atlas Mountains to Fes was long, but we can partially “blame” our slow and safe driver, Mohamed, never in the left lane and always well below the speed limit on roads that seem fine yet […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2014
A four hour early morning drive from Essaouira left us at our trailhead at Aguerssioual village in the Azzaden Valley, where we briefly took in some tea and cookies before heading up the High Atlas Mountains. With Mohamed at the wheel as usual, we had picked up our young guide, Jemal, outside of Marrakech. For […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2014
Essaouira is 175 kilometers, all solid highway, from Marrakech but about a 3 hour drive with a law abiding and overly conservative driver, not a bad thing with our two families travelling together in a large van. Close to our destination, we stopped at a women’s argan collective, one of many in this region of Morocco, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2014
This will go on for a few posts so please bear with me. And bear with the endless photos of kids (and adults at times) in puffy jackets; but, you can’t beat the warmth and weight. The Morocco blogs may not be so entertaining, but I really need a record of our North African excursion, […]