Tag Archives: North Africa
Sunday Photo – The Tanneries, Fes, Morocco
I have just watched the BBC programme about city dwelling creatures and they featured one of the most adept species at living off humans – the common pigeon. Unusually they showed pigeons in Fes, where they are very useful as their droppings are used in the leather dying industry that has been practiced there for […]
A-Z April Challenge – Old Cataract Hotel, Aswan
I have only visited or stayed in a very small handful of iconic hotels such as the Baron in Aleppo, Hotel Lisboa in Macao, Hotel Nacional in Havana, Raffles in Singapore, La Mamounia in Marrakesh or the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo. The Old Cataract is up there with them. I didn’t stay at […]
A-Z April Challenge – Abu Simbel
This year for the challenge I will be blogging about some premier sites & sights that I have experienced on my travels abroad. With ‘A’ I was spoiled for choice – Alhambra & Angkor Wat would have made fine opening subjects, but I plumped for one of the earliest ‘wonders’ that I had viewed. In […]
Easter Sunday Photo
Easter was traditionally a time of year that I travelled. With the double bank holiday I was able to take a ten day break and only use up four days of annual leave if combined with weekends. I have done so in the likes of Egypt, India, Morocco, Lebanon & Jordan in addition to plenty of long weekends […]
