Saturday, June 4, 2016

Travels with TayCee


My little grandaughter, Eleanor, calles me TayCee... I know, too cute right? This year on our vacation from Innsitting Kirk and I went to Morocco and guess who went with us? Well, of course her mother came along too so it was a real family affair.  I have to admit I was nervous about a baby in Morocco but she was treated like a princess and it was a great place to have a little one.



   Here we are having breakfast in our apartment [part of an old palace decorated with the most beautiful tile and plaster work you have ever seen] before going out to explore the ancient city of Fez. Our "home" was right in the middle of the warren of streets that makes up the old Medina but Noura [that's Arabic for Eleanor] did just fine with the crowds, donkeys, and noise. We had fun seeing sights and shopping - in the leather market she was given a tiny pair of slippers with sequins on them.



That night we had dinner at a restaurant called the "Ruined Garden". Yup, it was in a beautifully haunting ruined garden attached to a ruined palace. The food in Morocco is not varied but it is delicious - farm to table is the only way.  Noura loved the tagines: rice with vegetables and chicken cooked in a cone shaped pottery dish then brought to your table as a pyramid of food.



From Fez, we went to the Sahara - what a stunning place! Noura got to ride a camel and loved it. Here she is getting up close and personal with TayCee's  mount. Behind us is Ali, our host, who set up our camel ride in the desert and just LOVED the little one. He watched over her with an eagle eye. When she was ill, he brought her yogurt and as we left he gave her a hand made shirt that said "sahara" on it.










  Then on to Marrakesh. We had another Medina apartment. This one had a lovely private roof top deck with a covered sitting area and then a skylight to the "riad" below. This photo is a "dance party" on the deck before going out for the evening.  The baby's favorite thing in Marrakesh was a fun horse drawn carriage ride from the famous "al Fna" square  back to our "home".





Our last stop in Morocco was the seaside town of Essouria where Noura and TayCee loved to get their toes wet in the ocean. Here we had a magical blue and white house right on the ancient city walls and we had lots of fun exploring the fortifications. Of course we also took time to buy a few last trinkets from Morocco and have a few more great dinners.

What wonderful
    Travels with Taycee!!

1 comment:

  1. I'm so glad you were happy to make such wonderful memories with your daughter and granddaughter.

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