Lost in the Medina at Fez

Lost in the Medina at Fez...

Where the locals do their everyday shopping...

We passed the Sidi Ahmed Tijani Mosque...

and the 9th century Kairaouine Library with an old man selling second hand shoes and what appeared to be comic books based on the Koran (so much for the prohibition against the depiction of the human form).

We recharged our tired, old legs in a little, hole-in-the-wall cafe...

Moroccan "nus-nus" (strong, cafe latte) accompanied by sweets filled with coconut, date, cashews and coated in chocolate. Can anyone beat the Morrocans at cake making? I suspect not.

At the meat market there is all manner of flesh, fish and foul on sale - including tortoises and snails.

Obviously hard to move this line of padlock- they seem to have been sitting there for centuries?

Around Place Seffarine the metalworkers hammer away...

...and stop to chat with neighbours and passersby.

 Horses, donkeys and miles are still a handy form of transport for lugging merchandise along the narrow lane ways.

Sensory overload. 

We make our way out onto the Place Er R'Cif...

...and back to the hotel in a Petit Taxi (exhausted).

What a maze! 

What a city!

 

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