Tag: 2016
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Exploring Northern Morocco: Chefchaouen, Tetouan, Asilah, and Rabat
When my parents flew into Morocco for a ten-day visit, I simply could not help myself. I had to take them to Chefchaouen. The “Blue City”, with its winding allies, its relaxed atmosphere, and the Moroccan grandmother who, in my opinion, makes the best ghoriba cookies in Morocco, called to me. We spent two days…
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Wandering in and above Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen looks like a Pinterest-gasm of peeling-paint and antique doors exploded over the physical walls of a fifteenth century city. I spent three blissful days there with friends over the long weekend for Muharram. My best advice for you is to wander through the old medina (Arabic for city). Leave your watch and your phone…
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Solo Travel to Marrakech
For the Eid holiday weekend I traveled alone from Ifrane to Marrakech via a one-hour car ride followed by a seven-hour train ride. The train taught me about the limits of my patience and the tolerance of my stomach against motion sickness, as I persisted in reading my book despite my better judgement (For future-me,…
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Seven. Eight, if you include the sheep.
As I have done in the past, this is my “first week in Morocco” post to compliment my first week in India and first week in France posts from 2013 and 2014, respectively. Predictably, moving to Morocco has been full of challenges and successes. Challenge: Having a few unstructured days before I began work in…
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The Beginning of a Moroccan Adventure
Below you will find a variation on the now-obligatory blog post announcing that I will be leaving the United States for Morocco. I do actually plan to occasionally blog (*gasp*). I can make a few promises just so that you have some baseline at which to establish your expectations: There will be lists. And lots…