Toronto, Canada

Most happy to be home and working with a familiar keyboard. The last few days have been insane yet hilarious in retrospect. I'll leave these pictures as a starter.

1. This first picture is of the enormous mosque we went to in Casablanca, the only one open to non-Muslims in the entire country. The only other mosques we set foot in were a ruined one in Chefchaouen and those that were out of commission in various buildings turned into tourist attractions.

2. Inside the museum of Marrakesh which our tourguide did not want to take us to, so we explored ourselves. I thought this had the most gorgeous interior of all the ones we saw, at least this chandelier really impressed me.

3. This is one of the souqs to which I constantly refer. You can see some men in the more traditional dress, and the way the spaces between stalls are covered with wooden slats or reeds to keep the streets nice and cool.

4. Random shot from a window of a medersa (or madrissah - an old Koranic school).

5. View from the train window - looking out, I could almost imagine we were on Mars sometimes, it was all such a dusty, dry, dry red. It was hard to imagine this land supporting a population similar to Canada.

6. These next two are of some of the art we saw along the way. I love the geometric patterns.

7. The mint tea I fell in love with.

8. A and K looking at carpets in the medina of Meknes.

9. One of our first traditional Moroccan dinners (Meknes). We were inside a family owned restaurant. Our first time trying couscous and harira.