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the first night…

…in hell! Please, don’t ask me how I feel… I’ve been up since 4:18 am. Now it’s 6:15 am. ‘A gang’ of men were partying upstairs and I couldn’t sleep…Then the mosque near by, then a truck…and so on… Ah, what’s this picture about…it’s a shelf, it was burning – why? There’s a lamp. It

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I love being a girl!

No, I’m not a feminist. But I’m a girl, a woman, who’s quite strong, stubborn, hard working, radical and kind (most of the time) and I want to continue talking about girls, women because it’s important. For all of us and our future.My younger son sent me a link to the first video. He said I’d

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undercover in the red-light district of Casablanca…

I googled information about this street…Lalla means Miss. Of course I wanted to know who is Lalla Yacout… I went down to the hotel reception to ask if they know – of course they didn’t. They know the name of the street but that’s it. I wanted to know. I googled more. I found almost

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pouring tea…

Couple of days ago we met our friend in a cafe – he drinks tea –  my husband and I drink espresso, double! 🙂 Here’s a series of pictures how he poured the tea from the pot (VERY hot pot!)into the class… Voilà!

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Hey boys, grow up!

Yesterday was a big day for local football fans.Wydad Casablanca (red) and Raja Casablanca (green) played at 3 pm. Groups of drumming and singing fans were marching to the stadium  from 10 am! Maroc-football.com: In the 108th derby of Morocco’s Premier League,  Raja Casablanca scored a sole goal to overthrow Wydad from leadership  and took the

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espresso s'il vous plait…

Casa is full of coffee shops/cafes/cafeterias/terraces… to have a cup of espresso! Look at the size of that sugar cube! Here they insert a coffee capsule into the coffee machine.Used capsules are automatically ejected into a removable storage drawer each time a new one is inserted so your hands never get wet or dirty when brewing.

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boulevards, beach life and image question…

This is the ‘wrong boulevard’ we took at the weekend… 🙂 Hotels, beach clubs, swimming pools… Many people playing and walking but only a few were swimming… At home I noticed what that man was doing…No toilets???  Guess what is the most popular restaurant in Casablanca? Obesity will be a problem here too… The ‘correct

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