Tour of the city this morning. Officially the capital of Morocco. Wiki lists it as the seventh largest city with a population just over ½ a million and a metro area of around 1.5 million. As a Constitutional monarchy, there is both a two chamber parliament (with the Prime Minister appointed by the king from the majority party) and something like 15 palaces across the country. The palace here is the Administrative Palace with all the people, guards and bureaucracy that implies. The military has its admin HQ here as well but isn’t at ministry level (something about not allowing the military too much independence & avoidance of coup attempts.)
From there we went to the Mohammed V Mausoleum. Also on the same grounds is the Hassan Tower and what was to be the largest mosque, not finished with the top half of the tower destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake
Passing along the river – both the new symphony / ?Opera? center & business tower are easily visible.
A walk through the Kasbah (old walled potion of the city) was followed by a stop at the Jewelry Museum (yes, it has a new name)
It is mid afternoon and I am back at the hotel As it turns out, just traveling it’s the iPad is turning out not to be the greatest decision. I have limited ability to edit photos, I can’t easily resize them nor does copy & paste Argh.
I am sure we will be fine with whatever you can post here. I like the reduced weight of traveling with only my ipad.
Appreciate it. I will send links when I get the photos up.