Vegetable silk Natural and synthetic dyed More on this below Fes (aka Fez in some languages) is city at the crossroads. Not just the crossroads of place, being at the connecting point of Spain, Arab North Africa, and the trade routes south thru the Sahara. But also the crossroads of ideas, science, religion, and art. And with the meet up of all of this stuff, cultures that struggle to keep their unique identities in this great, boiling caldron of cultures. Note: The photos are all my own. No one to blame but me. And as I am working on this Blogger is doing its best to be as squirrelly as possible. So you are getting the worst of my ability to format with the best of the internet's ability to screw things up. Our guides, Rachid our overall shepherd, and our local guide, who's name is lost to me so I will refer to him as M, were so well versed in their history. But sometimes it felt a bit like Hamlet's observation: "The lady doth protest too much...
Adventures of an odd traveler, suggestions for slow walkers and those with limited mobility. And stuff about origami.