Rabat

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. 

 

 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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2 Responses to Rabat

  1. Ruth says:

    I am sure we will be fine with whatever you can post here. I like the reduced weight of traveling with only my ipad.

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