…the tough go out and commission a load of stone candlesticks!
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When the going gets tough…
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Take A Tree To Work Day
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Go on, you know you want to
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Some more views inside
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010To 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!
Our new house in Essaouira!
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Yes folks we’ve taken the plunge and bought the house behind (and under) Dar 91. To do so meant buying three separate properties – an experience that has been…well, let’s just say “a challenge” (one day we’ll write a book about that).
So anyway, now we’ve signed the final piece of paper and are the proud owners…apparently.
Over the next few months, you’ll be able to follow our progress on this blog as we renovate the new place. As you’ll see from the pictures below, we have a little bit of work to do…
More old clothes donated
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010A recent collection of old clothes from friends in the sartorial capital of England (that’s Manchester, in case you were wondering) turned up some lovely shirts and jumpers…just right for those chilly February evenings in Essaouira. Thanks everyone… they’ll be on the plane out tomorrow…
School chalk on its way…
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Thanks to Vicky and friends, who stayed at Dar 91 over New Year, for their very generous donation of school chalk – which will be winging its way to Morocco tomorrow!
Antique Berber door
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
This set of doors, a beautiful example of Berber design, was found in the hills outside Taroudant in the south of Morocco.
The Berbers’ design vocabulary includes magic numbers, magic squares, verses from the Koran, Arabic script, geometric shapes (triangles, squares, crosses, eight-pointed stars, six-pointed stars, spirals, circles and diamonds), as well as motifs representing plants, flowers, humans, eyes and hands. Berber designs are often valued for the ‘baraka’ (spiritual power) they contain…and we reckon these have bucketloads of the stuff
Cinderella sought….
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
The randomness of Essaouira……shoe dangling on electric cables
Trains Morocco
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Trains in Morocco are efficient and comfortable and the fares cheap. The long distance ones have air-conditioning, comfy seats and a trolley service with food and drinks.
The railways links Tangier, Meknes, Fes, Oujda, Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. Agadir and Essaouira have no railway station but are linked to Marrakech by bus.
You cannot make reservation or purchase a ticket from outside Morocco.
For schedules and fares visit the ONFC (the Moroccan national train service) website at www.oncf.ma
A really good website on train travel to morocco is the Man in Seat Sixty-One…
Eid Mubarak!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Happy Eid to everyone from all of us at Dar 91