and I just got offered a new job. I will start on 25th October as an Involvement Development Co-ordinator at the Advocacy Project.
It's a brand new post in a brand new team so no-one knows yet exactly what I will be doing. I'm really excited. I did have to take an earful from one of the tenants who is very annoyed at me for leaving. He's annoyed mostly that I didn't tell him that I had applied for a job.
Monday 27 September 2010
Walk like a Marrekshi
That's slowly and in single file, since you ask.
I have had this post sitting un-published since June. Waiting for me to get round to putting photos in.
My, time really does fly. I cannot believe it's been almost a month since I came back from Marrakech.
It's a crazy, crazy city. We were staying in the beautiful and relaxing Riad Dar Najat.
A Riad is the best option for staying in Marrakesh as you can stay right in the heart of the Medina (old walled city) and as they are small you experience a much more personal service that you might in a larger hotel. Riad's are traditional Marrekshi homes but a lot seem to be tourist accommodation now. From the exterior, you ca barely notice them. In Islam it is not allowed to make big displays of wealth so these larg homes are not very visible from the street.
Dar najat has (I think) just six rooms, ours was small but perfectly formed with a MP3 speaker system which I think was a nice touch, though as music is played throughout the day at Dar Najat you don't really need your own. The rooms all open out onto a central courtyard. The courtyard is shaded and cool on the ground floor and the rooms on first where we
were also remained cool but the upper level terraces benefitted from the sun. The sun was hot in the middle of the day and a cool jacuzzi is there to help the overheated to cool down. The breakfast was fantastic and the evening meals were so good that after eating in the first night we didn't consider going else where on the other nights.
We visited the Palais Bahia which has beautiful gardens and interiors and Museum Dar Si Said. The interiors of this museum were stunning and the Moroccan arts and crafts inside were beautiful and interesting. We didn't know that the museum was there and were walking nearby when a shopkeeper said to us 'the museum is that way' and we asked if we should go and he said yes so we did and were glad that we did.
We also took a taxi out to visit the stunning Jardin Majorelle. Jacques Majorelle is born in 1886 in Nancy (France). In 1919 he settles in Marrakech to continue his career of painter, where he acquires a ground which was going to become the Majorelle garden. Since 1947 he opens his garden's doors to the public. Following a car accident, he returns to france, where he dies in 1962. in 1980 Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent repurchase the garden and restore it.
The gardens were an absolute work of art.
Oh and we took a horse taxi back into town -touristy and tacky it was but fun. I look like I'm trying to be cool in this photo which has been pointed out is ridiculous on a horse taxi.
On our last day we did the best thing and visited Les Bains deMarrakech. A fantastic spa. We had a duo treatment. Hammam (steam room) - black soap scrub, ghassoul mud bath and a draining massage. There was also lounging around drinking mint tea. It was absolute heaven. My skin and mind have never felt so good.
I have had this post sitting un-published since June. Waiting for me to get round to putting photos in.
My, time really does fly. I cannot believe it's been almost a month since I came back from Marrakech.
It's a crazy, crazy city. We were staying in the beautiful and relaxing Riad Dar Najat.
A Riad is the best option for staying in Marrakesh as you can stay right in the heart of the Medina (old walled city) and as they are small you experience a much more personal service that you might in a larger hotel. Riad's are traditional Marrekshi homes but a lot seem to be tourist accommodation now. From the exterior, you ca barely notice them. In Islam it is not allowed to make big displays of wealth so these larg homes are not very visible from the street.Dar najat has (I think) just six rooms, ours was small but perfectly formed with a MP3 speaker system which I think was a nice touch, though as music is played throughout the day at Dar Najat you don't really need your own. The rooms all open out onto a central courtyard. The courtyard is shaded and cool on the ground floor and the rooms on first where we
were also remained cool but the upper level terraces benefitted from the sun. The sun was hot in the middle of the day and a cool jacuzzi is there to help the overheated to cool down. The breakfast was fantastic and the evening meals were so good that after eating in the first night we didn't consider going else where on the other nights.
We visited the Palais Bahia which has beautiful gardens and interiors and Museum Dar Si Said. The interiors of this museum were stunning and the Moroccan arts and crafts inside were beautiful and interesting. We didn't know that the museum was there and were walking nearby when a shopkeeper said to us 'the museum is that way' and we asked if we should go and he said yes so we did and were glad that we did.
We also took a taxi out to visit the stunning Jardin Majorelle. Jacques Majorelle is born in 1886 in Nancy (France). In 1919 he settles in Marrakech to continue his career of painter, where he acquires a ground which was going to become the Majorelle garden. Since 1947 he opens his garden's doors to the public. Following a car accident, he returns to france, where he dies in 1962. in 1980 Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent repurchase the garden and restore it.
The gardens were an absolute work of art.
Oh and we took a horse taxi back into town -touristy and tacky it was but fun. I look like I'm trying to be cool in this photo which has been pointed out is ridiculous on a horse taxi.
On our last day we did the best thing and visited Les Bains deMarrakech. A fantastic spa. We had a duo treatment. Hammam (steam room) - black soap scrub, ghassoul mud bath and a draining massage. There was also lounging around drinking mint tea. It was absolute heaven. My skin and mind have never felt so good.
Monday 20 September 2010
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