Dar Aquas, Fez Morocco

06/06/2019

With everything closed due to the Eid El Ftoor holiday (1st day after ramadan), another walk was taken on Mount Zalagh. some interesting wildlife seen included Buzzards, Kites, and an adult fox (no cubs today).

31/05/2019

Interesting walk on Mount Zallagh today, a lot of wildlife. Set out early as the temperatures are getting hotter.

06/05/2019

Ramadan 2019 expected to start in Morocco at sunset Monday 06 May, with 07 May the first day of fasting.

05/04/2019

Concert: 'Zalema', Wednesday 10 April '19, Batha Prefecture, Fes Medina (opp Musèe Batha). 20h00 to 21h30.
An Instituto Cervantes Event / 2019 Fez Festival of Andalousian Music

L’Institut Cervantès de Fès participe à la 24ème édition du Festival de Musique Andalouse de Fès en collaboration avec la Mairie de la ville en invit

08/12/2018

Debussy piano concert with Celimene Daudet at Dar Batha this evening

01/04/2018

From William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to Paul Bowles’s translations of Moroccan authors, here are the best novels set in the city

31/03/2018

Not a bad list, have read 5 of them (2,3,4,7,10) & have 2 others still waiting on shelf to be read (5,6). The 4 Bowles (3 translations & 1 novel) books listed here are great, but I would have tried to include one of his short-stories volumes, some are better than his novels.

From William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to Paul Bowles’s translations of Moroccan authors, here are the best novels set in the city

27/03/2018

This is very interesting, the trailer seems to focus mostly on the Marrakech/Essaouira region, but hopefully the final film will be more representative of all the areas that Paul Bowles visited on his music collecting travels. Great project.

Teaser Trailer

13/02/2018

Someone told me this evening that winter is now over in Fez.

20/01/2018

Here are a few photos from a visit to Dayet Aoua in the Middle Atlas a few days ago. The lake was completely dry, and the site normally an important breeding place for the Red Knobbed Coots, contained not a single water bird. A stroll to the centre found it strewn with dead fish. A few birds were spotted/heard on the forest edges, including Great Tit, Lark, Thrush, GS Woodpecker, Jay, and Magpie. It has been suggested that the increase in planting fruit trees in the area has exasperated the water problem at the lake.

26/11/2017

Something 'Jack and the Beanstalk' about this :-)

Mosquée Hassan II, ce matin 😊