Jardin Majorelle – Yves St Lauren’s place
Rose, quite late – faffed around in morning re-changing room and spoilt films etc before lunch.
I don’t really remember the specific room-changing incident at Le Tichka, but in those days we did quite often end up changing rooms, as anything that didn’t meet Janie’s very high standards of room quality would get rejected.
The problem with film was probably film getting stuck in my old Zenith EM, which i think I largely solved by unsticking and changing the film in a changing bag, which i would always carry with me in those days. Photographer’s son blah blah.
Went off to La Mamounia for look around – also gardens and Koutoubia Mosque.
After lunch back at Tichka, we went sightseeing with a grumpy guide Abdul Jalil II – went to Palais de la Bahia…
– drove through the Mellah…
…to Jardin Majorelle [see headline picture and below]- saw gardens and small museum …
…then on to souks a look around – photographs and protracted negotiations over beautiful tajine dishes.
Yes, we both remember that souk/shopping trip well. Janie indeed got some beautiful tajine dishes which she still cherishes, but a little bit of our souls were left behind in the Marrakesh souk. The merchants were so pushy and we sensed that our guide, Abdul Jalil II (see above) was taking us to his personal choice of pushy, high-commission merchants. Both Janie and I had a headache by the end of that shopping trip.
Then after dark [we] wandered around to Djemaa El Fna for a while.
Back to hotel for dinner (Janie – brochettes, me – pastilla pigeon.)
All the photos from the second part of our journey are on this Flickr album – click here or below:
A placeholder and links for information about this whole trip can be found here and below.
