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Casablanca

As we will be sitting all day tomorrow, we decide to walk today. Our destination is Villa of Arts, a modern art museum in an Art Deco house, about 2.5 km away. It is overcast and slightly chilly when we … Continue reading →

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Marrakech to Casablanca

Our Morocco journey is winding down. We have a day in Casablanca and then we fly home.  Here are my random thoughts from our travels: How much weight can a donkey carry? I saw a rather large man riding a … Continue reading →

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Rabat

Casablanca and Rabat are like night and day. Where Casablanca is noisy and dirty and crowded, Rabat is quiet (although it is Sunday), the buildings are clean and cared for and the streets and sidewalks are empty (again, it is … Continue reading →

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Casablanca to Rabat

We are taking the El Boraq fast train this afternoon to Rabat, but we have time this morning to visit a couple of places. The Hassan II Mosque is our first stop. We decide to take the bus there to … Continue reading →

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Casablanca, Morocco

We enter another portal and a couple of metal tubes and after 12 hours emerge in Casablanca! Due to the French influence here, there was a huge Art Deco Movement here in the 1920s and 1930s. The buildings have a … Continue reading →

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