PULL UP A SEAT 2023

Recently spent a night in the lovely Dar Tourkai Guest House in Tarouddant, Morocco…. Just look at what a stroll around the garden revealed – I want to LIVE here!!! XingfuMama posts every Friday morning….. *Create a post with a photo of places one sits or might sit, or art about sitting, and maybe a little […]

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Self-exploring in Morocco (away from those big cities!) – 1. Les Roches Bleues

Not quite ‘turn left in the middle of nowhere and keep going‘ but……… No – we’re not really in the middle of nowhere – we’re just a few miles from the town of Tafraoute in Southern Morocco. But the desolation of the beautiful Almenn Valley certainly adds to the bizarreness of what we are seeking…. […]

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LAST ON THE CARD – MARCH 2023

March 31st, 8.00pm. Taghazout, Morocco – Surfers paying homage to the setting sun…. The rules for Brian’s Last on the Card prompt are…….. 1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the end of the month.2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed […]

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Wish you were … NO! Wait!….. Wish I were here!!!!

I’ve ignored it now for 12 months! Talk about rubbing salt in it! You know…. Rediscover this Day….. thank you Google! Its bad enough having no trips in the offing but to be reminded of those halcyon days when it was just ‘where’? – never ‘when’? So I shall share my pain with you all […]

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My Top 10 of Everything – Fabulous Ancient Sites around the Mediterranean

How does one go about selecting just 10 gems!   There are some glaring omissions but I’ve tried to give a geographical spread (obviously there could be 10 sites in Greece alone….or Italy….or Egypt….).   There are sites here from everyone’s bucket list as well as some lesser known treasures.  I’ve visited all ten,  some more than […]

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