THURSDAY THIRTEEN

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I am still in Morocco for another two days ! So I thought I take you on a little tour through a very beautiful and old residential quarter in Rabat the capital of Morocco.

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our group starting the tour. All houses are blue and white and the streets so narrow that no car can get through

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It all looks so fresh and light

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Pots with plants in front of the doors and a little boy watching us tourists !

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A modern telephone and satellite dishes on the roofs !

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carpets hanging out to dry in the sun

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beautiful tiles as a separation between the blue and the white

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flowers hanging everywhere

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The most beautiful garbage container I have ever seen !

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Green bridges from house to house and the streets are of cobble stones

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behind houses are built and things restored.

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quiet a lot of steps are leading you up and down through a white and blue labyrinth

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and after our walk a well earned break with the traditional mint tea !

THURSDAY THIRTEEN - Cat opinions

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13 cat opinions when their home is repainted


1. Humans have some nerve! Did you try to help with the painting?

2. We had major work done here last summer, it’s no fun unless they let you help. I hope you at least signed the wall with your paw print.

3. I hate it when that happens. My human usually moves the furniture then decides she preferred it where it was and then moves it all back again.

4. Tell me about it ! my humans remodel the utility room and wrecked the whole house in the process, things are just now beginning to get back to normal.

5. We’ve had stuff like that happen here too…we don’t like it one bit…and when we try to make the best of it and help out, we’re told we can’t…

6. You’d think they owned the place by the way they behave! Did you assist with the painting?

7. We’ve said it before and we’ll doubtless have to say it again: humans can have some pretty bizarre ideas…

8. I hope you’re still getting dinner at the right time! They better not mess with that.

9. They move stuff all the time. I’m still looking for my Christmas Tree !

10. I am sure none of these changes improves a cat's live, so why do they do them? You don’t care what color the walls are I am sure.

11. It was naughtyy of them to move stuff and use stinky paint!

12. Oh the furniture moving and paint are the worst! Just be glad you didn’t get it on you because they would have tried to give you a bath!

13. I know…what we have to put up with. You know when my humans painted this past summer…we liked it! My momma Ellie tried to help strip wall paper and we both tried to help paint with our tails. And what happened??? We got locked out!




PS. My source was cat comments on different blogs. Thank you, you blogging cats !

THURSDAY THIRTEEN - Morocco

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Yesterday evening I came back from my roundtrip trough Morocco and wanted to show you the first pictures of this beautiful country

13 stops and views of the South of Morocco

1. Marrakech,known as the "Red City", is an important and former imperial city in Morocco.

2. Ouarzazate, the Holywood of Morocco, where amongst others "The Mummy, Gladiator and Martin Scorcese's Kundun were shot.

4. Aït Benhaddou is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and several films have been shot there, including "The Last Temptation of Christ" "The Sheltering Sky" "Kundun" "The Mummy", Gladiator and Alexander

5. Atlas mountains

6. Zagora, a well known town with a sign at the town border : "Tombouctou 52 jours", the supposed time it takes to get to Timbuktu, Mali on foot or camel.

7. a sunset in the Sahara on a camel

8. Erfoud, also is a popular destination for filmmakers because of the beautiful views of the Sahara Desert that the town's location affords. Desert sequences in the 1999 film The Mummy were filmed in several locations around the town, including the inside of a dormant volcano.

9. Tineghir is a town in eastern Morocco, in the Atlas Mountains

10. Red mountains

11. Villages were time stood still since 2000 years, but have here and there a TV antenna

12. the "blue men" Berbers who live in the desert

13. Camels and donkeys !