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Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part Two
April 14 – 16 For our hot air balloon ride the next day we needed to be up and out quite early, something like 6:30 so we walked out to the small plaza just outside the pedestrian lanes to the Riad. After a short wait, a driver picked us up and then made a couple […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part One
April 14 – 16 After another nice breakfast at the Riad we climbed into the van for the last leg of our tour, the short drive to Marrakech. On the way down out of the mountains we stopped at a viewpoint overlooking a terraced valley reminiscent of those we’d seen in Peru and the twisting, […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes to Marrakech, Part Two
April 11 – 13 Our in-home lunch would again be a treat, with plenty of delicious food, this time including pita bread, cold vegetables, roasted chicken, warm noodles and kebabs, both chicken and beef. Washed down with tea, and a variety of sodas, it was more than enough to keep me full until the next […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes to Marrakech, Part One
April 11 – 13 We set out the next morning for the beginning of three days of travel that would lead us to Marrakech, the final stop of our tour. We would spend three nights in three different locations, first at Sahara camp, next near Todra Gorge, and finally in Alt Benhaddou. That drive from […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Three
April 9 – 10 We’d met our guide for the medina at the Bab Bou Jeloud City Gate and he led us through the street that comprised the Jewish quarter where we climbed back into the van for a ride out to the Art Naji Pottery and Tile shop, first stopping at an overlook that […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part One
April 9 – 10 As mentioned in the earlier post, we were scheduled to meet with our tour group at 6:00pm in Cities, the hotel restaurant. Joanna and I went downstairs a few minutes early and finding seats at one of the tables, ordered a drink apiece while we waited to start. Mine would be […]
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part Two
April 4-6 We left the Falconry and walked a short distance to the stables, a long building with stalls lining each side, each with a window to the outdoors. Most held a horse with a sign on the wall indicating their name and the feed mixture they would be consuming each day. Four of the […]
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part One
April 4-6 We would leave Lisbon the next morning and journey not quite three hours for a two-night stay at Alter Real, part of the Hotel Vila Gale Collection. This part of the trip was behind the whole reason to begin with, that is for Jessica, Gemma and Kris to attend the wedding of their […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Three
April 1-3 We were up and out early for our planned day trip to Sintra through Viator on their Sintra Highlights and Pena Palace Full-Day Tour. Joanna and I visited this area in 2014 but did not take a tour. Instead, we drove our car out to the coast and parked near the lighthouse there […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Two
April 1-3 The walk back to the apartment with Jessica, Gemma, Kim and Joanna took most of the rest of the afternoon due to the distance involved and the need to do some extensive window shopping along the way. Partway back we stropped in the Santa Maria Major neighborhood on its bustling pedestrian Augusta Street […]
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