tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16830643332540188242024-02-21T01:04:39.200-08:00taroudantA diarised guide to life in Taroudant in pictures and English. Some of the items of most interest to general Tourists may be in older posts.themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-17930193801799204592020-03-08T03:03:00.000-07:002020-03-08T03:03:52.701-07:00Each for Equal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She is a board member of the IAAF having been a Vice-President of the IOC and Chair of the Co-ordination Commission for the Rio Games and served as Moroccan Minister for Sport. She originally came to international attention in1984 when she won the inaugural Womens 400m Hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics.</span><br />
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-72523842918157371442020-03-05T03:36:00.001-08:002020-03-05T03:36:45.302-08:00More room for prayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a small square in the middle of the Arab Souk home to vegetable stalls and</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vendors of second hand furniture. We were intrigued in November when most of the buildings on one side were demolished and the stalls cleared out to accommodate mounds of earth from pit being dug in their place. When we returned this year stalls had returned and construction was well under way.</span><br />
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-3329280505298703342020-03-01T07:20:00.001-08:002020-03-01T07:20:32.684-08:00The plasterers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst we use our garage as a garage most people round here use them as some sort of business or workshop. the ones opposite have been used as garages and storage for a minibus and equipment for a children's charity and as a car wash. The car wash proprietor was very nice but it was extremely noisy particularly in the evening when we wanted to watch television so it was a bit of a relief when a competitor opened up round the corner and the business folded. It has since been empty but when we returned after xmas a new business had opened. It is a plaster workshop and had moved from smaller premises across the main road. Now they have a double garage and whilst one side just has sacks of plaster the other stocks all sorts of moulds for making elaborate traditional cornices and stucco work. </span><br />
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-9197666560536310822020-02-26T08:52:00.001-08:002020-02-26T08:52:13.784-08:00Water<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The model-maker commented how nice to see somewhere where the only water was in swimming pool and it may be appealing to Brits dodging floods and storms but people here would love some of that water. Not floods , the last time they had some people died because their pise mud homes disintegrated in the night, but some rain would be welcomed. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile our water supply at home has improved greatly. It has always had variable pressure. We thought this was a method of rationing as it would be particularly low after noon prayers and recover after the next azan and of course it would give up completely on Friday mornings when everyone needed to wash at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we came back in the autumn work had clearly been done to our external supply pipes. Now it seems to have been completed for the whole area and the pressure is much improved. We can have showers not just baths in the upstairs bathroom (We'd only been able to have hot showers downstairs) and wash up at 2pm if we wish.</span></div>
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-53735189583829234852020-02-18T05:01:00.004-08:002020-02-18T05:01:24.420-08:00Sun and smug<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't blogged yet this year because I came out with a respiratory infection and spent the best part of 3 weeks more or less in bed. Beloved had wanted to go and spend his birthday in a posh hotel in Agadir but declared me too ill to go so it was postponed to last weekend as a sort of Valentines combination. You can't quarrel with the view from the bedroom window or the sound of the sea at night but that large swimming pool was unheated so nobody actually ventured a toe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather was good though. Whilst Brits battle Ciara and Dennis we have been having temperatures of 28C+. So a couple of days of sun and sea and restaurant meals was a wlcome break. Now we are back home and I'm desperately trying to work out why my pachypodium remains a single leafless stem. We planted it just before we left and it lost all it's leaves so the gardener cut the top off expecting it to grow seperate stems but none so far. Meanwhile the Jnane Soussia specimens grow increasingly multiple stems.</span><br />
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-70055764531032247892019-12-10T07:59:00.001-08:002019-12-10T07:59:35.309-08:00Goodbye Sun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 10th and a perfect T-shirt day for a farewell meal at the Jnane Soussia. Lots of blue skies for the modelmaker. We fly back tomorrow just in time to <b>VOTE LABOUR</b>, although I think Friday 13th may be a bit of a nightmare politically speaking.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of sun a good summer's day in Wales, but here the cats don't seek out a rare patch of sun to stretch out in but hide in the shade under the tables.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We went to the Crocopark. They clearly have enough crocodiles; at least a few hundred.It is owned by a French concern with links to a similar venture in Djerba, Tunisia, where all the Agadir crocodiles were sourced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently there were naturally occurring crocodiles in the Draa delta until the 1970s but they have now died out. The Crocopark is a conservation initiative but I don't think there are plans to re-wild any, particularly as all the crocodiles are just the one species of Nile Crocodile which is the fiercest and most aggressive of the sixteen true crocodile species extant today.</span><br />
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-83454296521608088702019-11-15T04:18:00.001-08:002019-11-15T04:18:09.113-08:00Tamazourte<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Quince are always in season when we arrive. I have two decent recipes for Lamb tajine with quince and when we went to Riad Hida the salad there contained some plain cooked quince "just boiled in water,or if you have some good honey you can add some". In Wales if you mention quince people always associate it with jelly so I looked on the internet. There were lots of recipes for quince jelly, mostly american and also for membrillo a sort of quince paste the Iberians eat with cheese. One site by an american moroccan gave 20 recipes that were all sweet, no tajines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have no visitors coming this autumn to cook for and I had found a packet of butter muslin lurking unused in a kitchen drawer so I decided to to make jelly and membrillo as a project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First we had to buy a jam pan, for the princely sum of £8. Quinces are very high in pectin which is why they are used for jellies or added to jams, but the skin and cores have particularly high concentrations. If you are just making jelly you can just roughly chop your quinces and place in the pan skin, core and all, but as I also wanted to make membrillo i needed to separate the flesh and carefully peeled and cored my 14 quinces to put the discard into the butter muslin. Quinces are the devil's fruit to peel as they are irregular and hard so it was a major chore.I could then boil them to extract the pectin whilst keeping the flesh unsullied.</span></div>
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-79267207294261113582019-11-02T05:44:00.001-07:002019-11-02T05:44:11.807-07:00Agadir Breeze<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-4364829088288966112019-10-18T05:27:00.000-07:002019-10-18T05:27:19.604-07:00The Dane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We booked the smallest suite- The Pasha. It had a large living area with seating and storage separated from the sleeping area by a screen. </span><div>
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Pasha Hida controlled the Sousse Valley during the later half of the 19C and early 20C. He allied with the Glaoui to control the Tizi n' Test at the commencement of the Protectorate but was killed, at an advanced age, in 1917 in a war down in Sidi Ifni. </span><div id="UMS_TOOLTIP" style="background: transparent; cursor: pointer; left: -100000px; position: absolute; top: -100000px; z-index: 2147483647;">
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-46318788415484259212019-10-06T03:46:00.000-07:002019-10-06T03:46:53.595-07:00Hibiscus Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadly they seem to have discontinued the route from November. Come on Air Arabia now Thomas Cook's defunct re-instate the route! If any of you out there are lucky enough to have an Air Arabia route give it a spin.</span><div id="UMS_TOOLTIP" style="background: transparent; cursor: pointer; left: -100000px; position: absolute; top: -100000px; z-index: 2147483647;">
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-21353885360836136242019-03-19T06:02:00.000-07:002019-03-19T06:02:15.713-07:00The 50p Dinner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-4629464502034187972019-03-18T09:43:00.002-07:002019-03-18T09:43:57.942-07:00The girl in the Spider's Web<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-759231118709983102019-03-16T09:55:00.001-07:002019-03-16T09:55:33.475-07:00Slam dunk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-29701706689224686512019-03-14T05:26:00.000-07:002019-03-14T05:26:15.068-07:00Tiznit Murals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I fist noticed the fashion for large scale mural portraits on the sides of buildings with the Berber portrait in Marrakesh but Tiznit has grown some good ones.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I was unwell after our trip to Akka as I had deliberately let myself get dehydrated because of the lack of toilet facilities. I paid the penalty overnight and was left in a darkened room whilst Beloved went with a younger guide to see some other carvings only 23km west of Icht at Ait Herbil. He said it was just as well I didn't go as it was very scrambly and I wouldn't have managed the climbs but at least they were accessible from an asphalt road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These carvings are clearly not as old as those near Akka and are not deeply incised into the rock so are in some instances less easy to see. They are more like the engravings of goats so may be 3.000 years old or perhaps even more recent. .In that regard they are more like the Anazani petroglyphs near Albe</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rquerque.</span><br />
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themaevequeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904832933001465373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1683064333254018824.post-37378197636835356202019-03-11T10:09:00.002-07:002019-03-11T10:09:49.430-07:00The Guide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the past we have used guides in Fez and Marrakech and they have been relatively expensive and taken us to shops selling things we have no wish to buy but we realised that we would probably need one at Akka. Our first surprise was his rate which was considerably less than those in the cities. Then , looking back, I realise that there was no suggestion whatsoever that we may wish to go somewhere to purchase something, in fact it was I who insisted we stop off at a cafe where I knew there were english loos. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need a guide in the area his name is</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is referred to in our 12 year old guide book and has been guiding for over 30 years. He took us to the hamlet where he lived as a child off the piste to the carvings although he now lives in a modern house in Touzoune with his wife and five children</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moumoud wanted to show us more graffiti near Akka but we said we said we would prefer to see an agadir. He took us to Ait Kin which was a long if spectacular journey but the agadir was a stonker.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ait kin is near Tagmoute half way between Igherm and Tata on the lesser more easterly of the two roads joining them. It is a small hamlet but the villagers have restored their agadir as a tourist attraction with funds from the Obama government. How successful this is as a commercial enterprise is difficult to say as our arrival caused quite a stir and there were no signs of regular tourist provision such as a cafe,hanut or coffee shop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agadirs are fortified granaries. Those in the anti-atlas are built in a particular style usually at the centre of a fortified village. Ait Kin is not fully fortified but it does have a defensive gatehouse at its entrance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with dogleg bends which would be highly defensible until you come to the central square with the agadir on one side and the mosque opposite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a defensive tower at the point where you enter the square</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only entrance to the agadir is from the square through a pair of formidable doors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside is a courtyard with numerous small rooms built into the walls where the grain would be stored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The agadir is mentioned in a document of 1709.so it is either late 17C or early 18C. Thankfully for me it is an a less defensive position than many in the anti-atlas so we did not have to climb a peak to get to it but could drive straight up to the Imi n'Wasqif gate and then it was on the flat. The gatehouse is unusual but many agadirs are in very inaccessible sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Akka is famous for its prehistoric rock carvings although there are similar carvings all along the rocks south of the anti-atlas. We went to the most accessible group. To get there you turn south off the N12 just west of Akka and then travel several kilometres across piste</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Without a guide you would be hard -pressed to find the right ridge and when you get there you may see some walking along the ridge but I doubt you'd find half.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We used Moumoud (tel 06.62.29.18.64) who has been guiding the area for over 30 years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The carvings are 6,500 years old and mostly depict gazelles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and even a man hunting with a bow and arrow. 6,500 years ago the area was not semi-desert but a lush savannah and swamp and these and the animals that lived here. There are also fossils from when it was a seabed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The carvings are incised into the rock about a millimetre deep. The thing about this rock is that it is like that at the National Petraglyph Park we saw near Albuquerque. It appears black but this is only a very thin surface layer which has oxidised over time. When they were first carved the graffiti would have been much clearer standing out as white against the black rock. The native american petroglyphs at Alberquerque are not incised as deeply as the carvings and and are dated from 1000BCE -1200CE. interestingly there are some later carvings here of goats which are only 3,000 years old, ie,c1000BCE and they are not deeply incised either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are back from our trip South, earlier than planned because I forgot my additional insulin and we had to be back by last night. We went to the hamada, the stony desert, between the anti-atlas and the Sahara proper. In the past we have got to Tataa nd turned east but this time we went west. There are not that many places to stay and we wanted to pre-book so we went to Borj Birimine in Icht. It is named after the tower where they have the water pump but although it is the site of an old caravanserai for camel caravans which had crossed the Sahara the buildings at Borj Birimanne are new. It has been developed from 2007 by a group of french people and what is there now is a hotel comprising a number of separate single storey buildings, in which we had a room,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some tents containing dormitory accommodation and a large number of pitches for campervans. The wifi only works in the restaurant area and we were competing for bandwidth with the other guests so I couldn't blog until we got home. The owners keep tame peacoks which could be loud</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but otherwise it was very peaceful and of course it was wonderfully starry at night because there is no cloud and dark skies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and Paul, the manager had some prehistoric tools they'd found on site.The knife at the bottom is still really sharp and fits the hand perfectly..</span><br />
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