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Big teapot

Outside another roadhouse. Not mentioned it in the posts yet but the Moroccan version if mint tea - green tea with fresh mint leaves added after the tea is made - with reduced/no sugar, can get addictive, even for people who don't like the peppermint tea we get in the West .
Morocco 3 – Swinging 'Sweera' (Essaouaira)

June 3rd 2016
On the way to exchanging the High Atlas Mountains for sea level and the coast at Essaouira – shortened to 'S'weera' by the locals – we took a detour to a winery. Now perhaps most people are more aware than I but, for much of my life, I have enjoyed a quiet drop of wine from time to time and I can't recall ever having Moroccan wine. I had put wine (and other alcohol) to one side for our time in ... read more
Africa » Morocco » Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz » Essaouira

Moroccan Flag In 788, about a century after the Arab conquest of North Africa, successive Moorish dynasties began to rule in Morocco. In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurate... ... read more
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4th June 2016

Mint Tea?
Wouldn't want to go under a bridge would it? Wouldn't want to blow the lid off the kettle so to speak!
12th June 2016

Magic teapot?
We've seen lots of 'big' things but this is the first 'big teapot'. Not that any place in Moroccoa would need to advertise they have mint tea, we would have thought.

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