We have found this old cinema posters in a junk market in Essaouira and could not resist them…
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Charlie Chaplin
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Toothbrushes collection
Sunday, October 10th, 2010Hi we are still collecting toothbrushes and toothpaste for our dental hygiene projects in schools outside Essaouira for the new year.
Please see our previous post:
http://www.moroccoholidayhome.com/blog/category/charity/
Thank you to the Studio Ricci Oddi Massoni in Piacenza for its generous donation.
Class glass
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
One of the joys of renovating in Morocco is the abundance of coloured glass. We are particularly loving the deep green and rich yellow of these windows, which we found at the junk market and have brought back to life…
Five reasons to come to Essaouira
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Weather – with at least 320 days of sun, it is HOT, with BLUE SKIES all the way.
The amazing sunsets giving every night a spectacle of colours, either PINK, ORANGE or DEEP BLUE…don’t forget your camera!
Lovely fresh fish and an ever changing supply of fresh fruit and vegetables…let’s EAT EAT EAT
It’s a shopping paradise, with fairer prices than in many other Moroccan tourist destinations, and less need to barter. So you can SHOP TILL YOU DROP
Essaouira is like a window onto a simpler past long lost in Western Europe. ENJOY IT!
The Regraga pilgrimage
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
This Sunday (25 April) is the finale of the Regraga pilgrimage, with a fantasia at Had’Dra.
The Regraga originate from the Chiadma region to the north of Essaouira, and their ancestors are said to have made the Hajj to Mecca, received the blessing of the Prophet and introduced the Quran to Morocco. Every year they and a host of pilgrims go on a marathon 38-day tour of shrines across the region, erecting holy tents and bestowing ‘baraka’ on the crowds who follow them.
About 30 days ago they came to Essaouira, bringing with them a new energy to the town as the locals’ friends and families descended from the countryside to celebrate this popular annual festival, filling up the houses and streets with hustle and bustle. The parade progressed down the main street to the beat of drums, with the pilgrims throwing water and blessings. It’s fascinating to watch the Moroccans being cornered by the pilgrims, demanding dirhams in exchange for a blessing, and an interesting custom is that unmarried women who stroke the white horse which forms part of the cortege, will apparently increase their chances of finding a husband.
The locals say that with the Regraga comes a wind that makes the wheat dance and other crops grow – and as is so often the case here, they managed to find time for serious shopping at a market to the north end of town, which went on long into the night and, given the lack of street lighting in that area, proved that Moroccans can even shop in total darkness.
Incy Wincy Spider
Saturday, March 13th, 2010“Incy Wincy spider climbed up the spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
Now Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again”
A strange side-effect of starting the work on the house was the growth of a huge number of spiders’ webs at the lower levels of the house. This may have been partly that existing webs became more visible as dust from the higher levels landed from above. But we prefer to believe that the spiders themselves moved down the building to escape the noise and disturbance. We’ve never seen so many webs all in one place!
Grattage
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
A few weeks ago we got the permit from the Council to start with the ‘grattage’. This basically means scraping away the plaster from the walls, and the cement underneath.
For such an exotic sounding word, grattage is a thankless task – and especially for our stalwart builder Hakim, who has managed it pretty much single-handed.
The grattage revealed that our house is built of stone rather than brick, and with wooden beams resembling a Tudor construction.
In Morocco it is frequently claimed that treasure can be found in old houses – people used to hide valuables before fleeing in local dynastic disputes….sadly we have not yet found any….but we did uncover a fantastic old terracotta downpipe set into the wall, from roof to ground level, which is a kind of consolation.
Our dental hygiene project
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
We are writing this post several months after the event, but are still enthusing about the fantastic day we spent at Abdessamad’s school in the middle of nowhere, several kilometres from El Henchane, on the Essa – Marrakesh road.
There are eight schools under the same director in this isolated, rural region, with a total of around 100 pupils. We spent the day with the youngest class, made up of children aged 5 to 7, as they learned Arabic and maths, using chalk and slates. Once they had worked out that we weren’t school inspectors, they relaxed and charmed us completely.
Then we handed out toothbrushes and toothpaste and Abdessamad showed them how to use them and how often. When we asked the class how many of them already cleaned their teeth, only one said yes. We will replenish the stock of toothbrushes/paste in six months, and then again another six months after that.
From then on, we will still provide them but the families will need to buy them at a subsidised price – we’re hoping that by then the children (and Abdessamad) will be in a position to persuade their parents that it is worth spending a small proportion of their weekly budget on dental hygiene.
A couple of months after our visit, Abdessamad tells us that around half the children say they are cleaning their teeth regularly. He and the other teachers are really getting behind this project and we owe them huge thanks for their commitment and hard work. Also a big thanks to Petra Hassan for her generous donation of extremely lovely toothbrushes which the kids think are ultra-cool; and to A J Dobkins’ dental practice, Manchester for giving us huge quantities of toothpaste samples and brushes!
If anyone is interested in this project and can help out in some way, do please get in touch.
Street Art Essaouira
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
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!!
