Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
April 23. Still 2020?
I don’t know about you, but for me time seems to have stopped. A day feels like a year. What did I do this morning? Or yesterday? Was there a yesterday actually? Continue reading “Covid-19: When flagged as high-risk”
As with most of our trips at the time, this was a spontaneous decision. Air Canada Rouge had just opened a new destination to Venice and the price was really good. Continue reading “Venice, May 2016”
We’ll have another post on Venice and our activities there in the spring of 2016. We visited about a year before anti-tourist protests would begin, Continue reading “Venice as we saw it then”
Happy Birthday Anne!
We’ll start this storyline with our visit to Milan and Mutti in 2016. Continue reading “Anne, Milan & Mutti, Italy”
This is the final video from our tour around Morocco in January 2020. Our last stop on the guided tour was Marrakesh (or Marrakech). Continue reading “Marrakesh & Casablanca”
Jan 26
Marrakesh was our final stop on this tour and this is our final tour post: it’s only two and a half months behind us, but it feels so far in the past now. Continue reading “Marrakesh”
This is the penultimate video from our tour around Morocco in January 2020. There were a couple of stops on the road from Imlil in the High Atlas to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. We explored Essaouira in a rainy day. You can find more in our post.
Why virtual itinerary?
We still have a few posts from Morocco coming, but in the meanwhile we are starting a new storyline – Virtual itinerary.
All the stories in this storyline are real. Continue reading “Why virtual itinerary?”
Jan 24
We really liked Essaouira although the only full day we had there it rained. All day. And this was the only rainy day we had though the entire trip. Continue reading “Essaouira”
As part of our January 2020 trip to Morocco we traveled to the old fortified village of Aït Benhaddou and onward to the villages of Imlil and Armed (Aroumd) in the High Atlas mountains where the overnight stay was in a gîte overlooked by 4,167 metre Mt. Toubkal, the highest mountain in Morocco, North Africa and the Arab world.
OK, these days Covid-19 makes all the headlines and the news. Continue reading “Getting creative with your non perishables”
Jan 22
Today we hiked in the mountains and I felt at home again. Continue reading “High Atlas Mountains at last”
The speed with which everything is changing is frightening. We don’t even have time to analyse emotions or for the emotions to sink in. Continue reading “Lightspeed”
Jan 21
This was another short ride day. Today we’d travel on the “Route of 1000 Kasbahs”. Continue reading “Aït Ben Haddou”
A Black Swan is a metaphor describing a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics. Continue reading “The Black Swan”
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