Its been a hectic time in the Medina with myself and Hector the style councillor over last few days as we fine tuned the plans created new spaces and terraces and worked on the electric schematics to gice all to the builder for the estimate. Spent lots of free time checking out the surrounding area and meeting more eccentric English folk who have bought into the Fes lifestyle. We are all as mad as a box of frogs but who cares its a grand adventure and its real life, fun, frenetic, colourful, noisy, smelly, endlessly courteous and not at all like Milton Keynes which for those who dont know is a crap town in England.
One of the trips we did was out to Sefrou a cherry picking berber town and the countryside could have come straight out of Tuscany only to be beaten out of sight by the trip to Ifrane which was so bizarre friends thought we had been at the kif when we got back. Ifrane looks as though it was transplanted from a Tyrolean ski resort it is definitely not what you would expecy in Morroco and high on a hill is a turreted castle or school which could have been Colditz. Further on we stopped at Mischliffen ski resort obviously closed in mid summer and spookily reminiscent of the Shining. We only saw one person a blind Moroccan carrying one ski pole, bizarre.
Work started on 31st July hurrah with the first job plastic sheeting and plastering over the beautiful zellige floors before the demolition squad come in and then it was demo time with the bags of rubble carted away daily by a team of donkeys and trolley boys. Will get some photos on site soon when i get the laptop sorted till then you will have to picture the scene.
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