Elizabethwix

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• Essouira to Sidi Ifni

  

  Over the past fifteen years we have travelled through most of Morocco, but had never been very far south on the Atlantic coast. These are some of the pictures... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sidi Ifni Part 1 0f 3

  

  The history of the Moroccan seacoast is complicated --variously French, Spanish, Portuguese. You can read about it here. Anyway, in late February we drove... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Blue in Essouira/Feb

  

  Unlike Marrakesh the pink city, Essouira is mostly blue and white. Here an old house awaiting renovation and an internal door at the hotel Riad al Madina.... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Some Traditional Men's Clothes/Morocco

  

  As in most of the world over, blue jeans, sweat shirts and leather jackets are the uniform of the young. However the habitues of the cafe in Ifni prefer to be... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Women of Southern Morocco

  

  I'm not quite sure what these wonderful flowing dresses are called. These photos were taken in Ifni and Tiznet in Southern Morocco. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Things I Could Buy/Morocco

  

  In Tiznit, south of Agadir I discover a very elaborate headdress of Berber design. And pretty headscarves on the ends of posts. I think this mannequin is waitin... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cats of Course!/ Morocco

  

  Of course there are vast numbers of cats in New York, but most of them don't spend most of the day lying in the road.... unlike their Moroccan cousins who lie... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• In the Souks with Zaki

  

  In the spice market there are all sorts of delights like snails and chameleons. And foxes drawn high up on the wall. A young arm with a chameleon.... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Road to Essouira

  

  Rather different from New York... About a hundred miles directly west from Marrakesh one comes upon an almost lunar landscape. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Back in Town --Briefly

  

  Some things change --but much stays the same.... but the cats are certainly in the leather goods shop and the spice market where the lizard and the tortoises... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• My Other World

  

  Before I started the New York blog, we lived in Morocco which is where I started blogging as a way to keep in touch with my family. (See The House in Marrakesh)... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Nothing Much New....

  

  This is a collage of some of my friends:Knutty and Biggie and Jasper and Darcy!This is RukaBerry whose family wanted to know why he hadn't been in the... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Food, Bright Skies and Up!

  

  Have been a hopeless blogger lately. The late February blahs! Yesterday we had a nice dessert after lunch --mini fruit tarts from Bergamot. YUM. Food can... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hearts and Flowers and All That Good Stuff

  

  What a day for cynics to sneer and the rest of us have fun! Flowers from the deli all baby's breath and red cellophane An apple to tempt one or a cookie like a... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Haunted Huntington

  

  Long Island was far harder hit by the blizzard than NewYork city. Here is the cemetery in Huntington in a thick fog with a spectral snow plow. Three in the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• More Snow but Not a Blizzard

  

  This is me wanting to go out, and the stuff in front of the window is from the builders, who are here for a long time.There was meant to be a blizzard but here... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Snow Day

  

  Well it did snow --there was a regular sort of a storm --not the blizzard we were warned of. Some parts of Long Island and New England had it far worse. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Friday Blizzard Watch

  

  Note in the elevator about 7 day supply of bottled water etc etc..... Look out our 2 gallons left over from Sandy. Son texts about filling up bath tub. Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Art

  

  People looking at art.... There are all sorts of stances that suggest attention like the weight on one foot seen here too. And the head slightly back rapt... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sticks and Snows

  

  Before it snowed again, there was a lot of windand a lot of rain came down and a lot of sticks came down from the trees.This is good for me because I like to... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION