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Looking across Fes.

April 26th 2011
"20 dirhams?!" Joel and I were expecting to pay 10Dh. "This is not a petit taxi", said the driver. Indeed it wasn't - it was a beige 80s Mercedes. I guess that's a deluxe taxi in Chefchaouen. Anyway, it got us to the bus station in time for the 10am bus to Fes. Once on the bus, it surprised me how green the Moroccan countryside actually is. When you think of Morocco, you think of ... read more

Africa » Morocco » Fès-Boulemane » Fes

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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Hi, Most of you will have been directed here by me - if so, thanks for coming. If not, thanks for coming anyway. I am Derek - a Kiwi who in June 2007, set off on a 4 1/2 month sortie around Europe via the USA, and set up this blog so that friends, family and randoms could keep track of where I had been to, and of the shenanigans I inevitably got up to. The trip inspired me to keep travelling and directly following it, I spent the next seven years living in London, which was a fantastic base from which to continue my travels and thus the travelling continued unaba... full info

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