Saturday, March 23, 2002 18:48 Weather: Hot & steamy, slight haze Location: The atrium of the Hotel Gazelle, Marrakesh My alarm clock woke me at a horribly early hour of the morning and I finished my packing and moved out. At 6am it was barely light out, and the streets were more or less empty. […]
Friday, March 22 20:04 Weather: Not a cloud in the sky. A scorcher. Location: Cyber Café, Boul. Mohammed V, Fès. I had a wonderful day getting to know Fès. I got up early again and wandered out for a coffee and a danish (yes, really) at a Patisserie on Avenue de France. Then back to […]
Thursday, March 21, 2002 21:17 Weather: Hot and sunny again! Location: Grand Hotel Fès, Fès, Morocco I stayed up last night and finished One Hit Wonder, which was a mistake: now I’m out of reading material, and Morocco has far fewer foreign language outlets than, say, Spain. (Not counting French. There are French newspapers everywhere… […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2002 15:56 Weather: Hot and sunny Location: Halfway up a Moroccan mountain above the town of Chefchaouen I’m sitting in the shade of a tree, because the sun is extraordinarily hot. Just over a short rise the path goes down to a ruined mosque above the city of Chefchaouen. The call for […]
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 18:50 Weather: Hot, and wall-to-wall blue skies Location: Room 12, Hotel Marrakesh, Chefchaouen, Morocco What a day! It’s very hard to believe that I had lunch in Seville yesterday. I’m in a whole other world here… I got up at 7:30 this morning, had a quick shower, and packed my bags […]
Monday, March 18, 2002 18:32 Location: Playa de los Lances (beach), Tarifa, Spain Weather: Warm and sunny, finally! Windy… Today was a total triumph. I finally feel as though I’m beginning to understand and appreciate Spain. There’s a certain rhythm: a quick breakfast around 8:30, busy morning, lunch from 12:30 to 2:00, slow afternoon of […]
19:45 Apparently getting up at 6:30 am on a Sunday in Seville puts you in a pretty exclusive club. When I set out at 7:30 to try and do some laundry, get some breakfast, and see some sights, everything was closed. I did see a few cars, but very few pedestrians, and almost no open […]
Sunday, March 17, 2002. 07:00. Location: Hostal Bienvenido, room 19, Seville. Weather: Cold, scattered cloud. I´m sitting in a solidly-constructed but unheated room on the rooftop of the Hostal Bienvenido, a low-budget guest house in the Barrio de Santa Cruz district of Seville. I realized as I was going to bed last night that I […]
2:30 pm. After a cold wet morning poking around the main sights of Evora, I´m lingering over lunch. This is partially because I´ve been somewhat taken advantage of by the owner of the nice restaurant where I chose to stop: he asked me what I wanted to drink, chose to interpret ¨fruit juice¨as ¨red wine¨, […]
Friday, March 15, 2002, 09:20 am Weather: high clouds, sprinkling rain Location: Evora town square coffee shop I have a bit of a sore throat this morning, as if I´m coming down with something, and I know exactly why. After doing some shopping and walking around downtown Lisbon yesterday I was ready to leave, so […]