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less women…

You remember I posted women… and more women… Here’s the final post – less women 🙂 All those curvy women live in this area – Golden Tulip Hotel des Arts, Casablanca (Dar Bouzza), Morocco. oh, no – not in these rooms! The curvy women are outside and inside the hotel – behind the bar… 🙂

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stone houses in Casablanca…

…here’s the first one No, not a church… 🙂 This is a cafe! Want to sit outside… …or inside and watch FIFA World Cup? Football is everywhere in this city right now… Stone House cafe – traditional Moroccan cafe. I’ve heard their pancakes/crepes are yummy with honey and butter! How about bying a flat –

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school's out and an image question…updated!

…yesterday I heard noise outside. It was so loud I had to go out and see what was going on… aaaah, they were reading the results… where they’ve been accepted to study after school! traffic was in chaos for a while… ‘Give me five!” These guys look happy! 🙂 * * * IMAGE QUESTION: Where

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Le Palace d'Anfa – did you miss me?

Back in Casablanca, Morocco again! A happy staff after breakfast… All my friends… 🙂  Hi guys! Did you miss me? Don’t worry,  I’ll visit you as soon as I get my nails done! 🙂 ‘Mr.Bean’: A Dry Martini would be gooood! We came home to Casablanca very early Sunday morning, slept couple of hours and started

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Casablanca Morocco downtown…

…where we had a long walk on Sunday…I took tons of pictures, here are a few of them… Boys playing football… Newspapers, books, pens… and a helpful young boy who helped my husband to find a lock to our door… These are cool! right? At the moment no customers but there are many public telephones

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back in time…

…they use still cheques in Morocco. I was surprised to hear that ‘normal’ bank account is called ‘cheque account’.They don’t have online banking here like they had in Egypt (HSBC) or in Finland all the banks do.You can NOT pay bills online like we’re used to in Finland. You can see only your saldos online,

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back to basics…

…in Blogger – able to upload pictures again and in our new home… Our washing machine’s water pipe/hose was just hanging there freely… until my husband fixed it… this I’ve cleaned already… these we found from the filter… Last night there was a party downstairs. At 2 am they started to play music and sing…

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BLOGitse's Appartement Coming Soon > BACS part 1.

I have always this notebook with me. Writing, drawing > visualizing helps me to remember… Our photographs for the residences has been in the company’s HR department over one month. Yesterday we heard our photos are too big!  They are normal EU size but here they want  2,5cm x 2,5cm photos – over one month

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this man…

…is our new hope for a place to live. I was going to post this picture without editing but I noticed this cloud, a shape like a man’s face. We found a flat, the owner is a man, we’re moving in on Thursday next week… On Tuesday I’ll visit the flat – what will stay,

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I need a break…

…because our home hunting takes all my time and energy right now  (today the owner raised the rent,  had a meeting,  promised to call back when suitable time to visit… no call…) I don’t know when I’ll be back… at this very moment I miss my life in Cairo, Egypt…

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