Dar 91 Essaouira Blog - Luxury guest house holiday accommodation for rent Essaouira http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Left behind http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/02/21/left-behind/ http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/02/21/left-behind/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:03:00 +0000 admin http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/02/21/left-behind/  

Random objects left in the house when the previous people moved out

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Walking in the medina and in the new town we have discovered these graffiti, election posters and advertising flyers. We liked them so much we thought of sharing them with you. If you go to Essaouira why don’t you try and find them!!

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What now?… I know, I’ll have a little rest…

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…Actually, you know what, I reckon hills are overrated anyway.  A bit of dappled shade never hurt anybody

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Thanks to lovely Petra for her generous donation of 100 toothbrushes…and as is Petra’s way, they’re not just functional but also beautiful. They were a big hit with the infant children in Ait Bousduk. Check out Petra’s creations.

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]]> http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/02/09/from-the-lime-to-the-ridiculous/feed/ 0 Some more views inside http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/02/03/280/ http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/2010/02/03/280/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:33:24 +0000 admin http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/?p=280 To get to the new house, you walk down a corridor to the left of Dar 91 and then up some steps to the first floor, where you find a two-room flat with a tiny understairs kitchen and windows over the city wall.

Further up lie two more flats, each with two rooms – and then the stairs wind on, finally reaching the 4th floor roof terrace, with views to the sea and across Essaouira’s old and new towns. All three flats cluster around the ‘mrah’ or central riad hole, although the previous residents had blocked this off with plastic and chipboard so as to create some privacy.

It seems unbelievable that this house, which now lies empty and has become so familiar to us, was so recently home to no fewer than 21 people. On our early visits our memories of its labyrinthine layout were so transitory that we thought we’d never make sense of it!stairs

 

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