”Have you ever smelled a geranium?” ”We call our geraniums Khadoug Kanza. That means ‘smelly woman.’ When you meet a woman and she is dressed beautifully, neat and clean and all made up and then you visit her in her home and it is a terrible mess... Well then we ...

King of Morocco for only six years. He assumed the monarchy on his father's death and shortly after he...

Although I was often told that men did not generally take extra wives any longer because of the expense and emotional conflict, I did see an example of a husband and two wives in the souk in Fez. Our guide Saida told us: "The best Moroccan food comes out of ...

Midday we were drinking mint tea at a nearly empty coffee house in the Middle Atlas when we heard the call of the Imam to pray. A boy who worked there, he must have been about fifteen, immediately pulled out his rug, placed it in front of the bar facing ...

One of the highlights of the Morocco trip my wife and I recently took was staying with La Baraka Auberge just outside of Merzouga, on the border of the Sahara, about 100 km’s from Algeria. Our host, Hassan Outaleb, was a film-star cum philosopher Berber of nomadic heritage who has run La Baracka for several...

Posted by Mary_in_Moroccco: I posted the following article on my blog today about the Port wine tasting we had last night, of the Portos available in Marrakesh. [b] http://winewriter.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/tasting-port-wine/[/b] Mary in Morocco...

Susan and I have had a hiatus from farming... during April and May we went on a guided walking trek in Morocco ranging from the souks of Fez to mule paths of the Atlas Mountains. I'm handing over this portion of LousMusings to Susan to share with you her artists eye and alert you to the Evil Eye that lurks in that enchanting and enchanted country. It's not farming but it fits right in. Lou...

Posted by Mary_in_Moroccco: In case anyone is interested, I've just written up three wine articles (and one article is quoting both Melissa and Marshall)on my fairly new blog, Writing, Painting, Music, and Wine . If you wish to see them, I am writing under the pen name o

After my relaxed week in Fez, I was ready to tackle the hustle of Marrakech. (Compares to traveling from San Francisco to New York.) But I couldn’t decide if I wanted to stay right in the medina, the pulsing heart of Marrakech, or in the plush rarified atmosphere of the ...

(The original version, with more photos and less margin-squishing, is here … ) 22 April 2006 – San Francisco, California Aziza – This Richmond District Moroccan is always a lot of fun. We’d resolved to come back after our somewhat disastrous last experience …which wasn’t the fault of the restaurant, ...