Blogs from Meknes, Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco, Africa - page 3

Having been in Meknes for a week now, and having received so many requests for updates, I decided to be that person and start a blog...I know, but isn't it better than tons of facebook updates that don't have the whole story attached? So here it is! My six weeks here are primarily to study arabic, and so despite adventures and traveling, we spend most of the week doing the same thing. Arabic class is every day from 9-1, with classmates from Arabic at William & Mary. Then lunch at the riad where we are staying. The riad is more of a guesthouse than a hotel, and we are provided with either "crepe" bread with butter and jam, or olives and olive oil, with coffee every morning. The coffee is SO good! We also get Moroccan ... read more

We've made it to Meknes now, one of the old Imperial capitals of Morocco. I think we left off in Chefchouen, but we've spent most of the last few days in Fes, which was fantastic. Fes and its university are older than Oxford university. It seems to have operated a collegiate system that's quite similar to Oxford's, with a central library and medersas where the students lived and studied. We went into two medersas. They are astonishingly ornate, putting our Oxbridge colleges to shame. Nowadays the whole university functions as a mosque and theological college, so as non-muslims we can't enter much of it. However, the craftsmanship on what we did see was so detailed that it must have taken much more work than a mediaeval English cathedral, for instance, although perhaps not quite so precise. ... read more

Meknes-miasto zalozone przez sułtana krwawego tyrana Mulaja Ismaila ... read more

Just a quick note to say that I'm in Meknes, still hot and sticky but not at all bothered by it- much; will hopefully be driving out t see those old ro,an ruins tommorow. Perhaps I'll be lucky and get the same cliff-teetering cigarette smoking bus driver as mum. Of course by now, he'd be blind, senile and quite possibly dead as well which, by local standards, might actually improve his driving.... read more

On a assisté à un concert sur la place de Meknes, la star, Bilal s'est fait attendre jusqu'à très tard, donc on a vu deux chansons et au dodo (on se levait très tôt le lendemain...). Plusieurs petits groupes avant sur lesquels on a pu danser "la tecktonic"!! (petite dédicasse à Didi, on a beaucoup pensé à toi!!!). Soirée sympa bien que Manon n'ai pas vu grand chose mais les épaules d'Amine étaient là !! ... read more