Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
Terracotta pots, whitewashed walls, cactus and geranium… succulents, and…. fireweed – even up here on this wind-blown rooftop!! (seems there’s no escaping the menace….!)
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
This corner shop had a floor of argan nuts and beautifully presented baskets of aromatic herbs and spices… and whitewashed walls hung with huge bunches of dried, wild thyme.
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
Jars of pigment as well as herbs, spices and scent line many a stall…(the three blue pigments you see here are the colours of Essouira’s doors and window frames). Sections of pigment-dyed raffia blow in the breeze…(and believe me, Essouira IS...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
A plethora of market stalls fill the narrow streets of Essouira….mountains of melons, oranges and grapefruit, to limes, chillies and cactus fruit…. and enormous barrows of mint…. (a handful is very useful and kindly given when you visit the leather...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
From palace walls & hidden courtyards, sacred tombs to hidden riads; palm trees and gingers, citrus and roses, medlar, cactus and geranium abound. And the gardens of the Kasbah contained a proliferation of plants we also grow at Glenmore; from fig, apple,...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
I was so delighted to discover, upon closer inspection, that what at first glance simply looked like scrubby vegetation in many of the valleys, was in fact intense cultivation by the Berber villagers. There was not an inch of waste, and I can only imagine how it must...
