rabat

two months i've been here in morocco, two months plus, drifting the days away mostly wandering the medina and centre ville, sitting around drinking mint tea and reading five dirham books in french, piecing together a home, a plan, a life here in rabat. accumulating carpets and cooking supplies, bedspreads and brooms, this little house overlooking the river slowly becoming cluttered and cozy.... slowly figuring out how to cook and put together meals... awkwardly adjusting to intern-life.

here are some pictures of life here... more to come soon...

schmabil and friend chantal living the life at our courtyard dining table. the blue on the wall, which you can see in the first picture also, is the color of all the outside walls of houses in the oudayas, the part of rabat where we live.





the misty morning view from our terrace.



the first of many kasbah cats that snuck their way into our home... sniffly.

another of the neighborhood cats, sometimes in fun we call him mister meow. whenever we leave the house he comes running down the lane meowing at full volume, sometimes bringing his lady friends also.

the approach to the oudayas... to the right, through the gate and past the andalusion gardens, inside the fortifications...

part of the beach near our house... they are in the process of developing the area along the coast and up the river, building a marina for yachts and walks down by the water etc.

one of the main streets in the medina, full of crafts like pottery rugs beadspreads stools leatherwork etc, along with lots of tourist traffic.






some makers of meaty sandwiches just inside one of the gates.

one of the many medina cats, making himself comfortable.

bab el had, entrance to the medina from near ocean, a residential working/middle class neighborhood to our west along the ocean.

traffic in front of bab el had, including a few of the blue petit taxis of rabat.