We both liked the flamenco show last night. Trapper was very surprised by how serious and sad the singer and dancers faces were. I loved watching the guitar player and I could have watched for hours. The singing was done well but sounded like a load of wailing to me. The dancing was very Rythmic. It was like the percussion section and was often and surprisingly the star sound of the music. In that sense the dancers particularly the man was great. We then contin...

So we made it to Spain rather smoothly. Ryanair did send us several stupid emails that meant we basically went straight to the airport rather then spending some time in the square in the morning. However, it is lovely to be in Spain. I’m not on nearly the same level of high alert. We checked into the Airbnb, got a SIM card and found our way to the theatre for our show rather easily. We even had time to start our passeo that we will continue after the flamin...

So we took a bit of a slow pace today. We started by going to the post office to mail our purchases home. That was a bit of a process but it got done. I hope it arrives safely. We then went to the Marrakesh museum which was in a beautiful old palace. It was not what I expected. I was told that it told the history of Marrakesh. It was really just a selection of artifacts and pictures. We then went to the martekesh house of photography. Basically it’s a colle...

So we went to the story telling tonight. The first two stories were told i English by twenty something university students. And the last one was told in Arabic by a 75 ish year old master story teller. None of the stories told were particularly great. However, I enjoyed every minute of it as the story tellers were so engaging without having any audience participation. Each story was about half an hour long and by far the most entertaining one was the Arabic one w...

So we made it to marrekesh yesterday afternoon. We checked in to the hotel and grabbed a lunch. We then met up with the group for our final bus ride. We got dropped off at the Medina and said good bye to the bus driver. We then had a tour of Saladin tombs and of the nearby palace. Each grave had a tile floor above it and some had buildings constructed around it. The palace was beautiful and had beautiful tile and stucco work. We then had some free time in the...