Terrace and tiles

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/travel/01journeys.html?ref=travel
Above is a link to a New York Times article which came out today Oct 1st all about whats happening in our neck of the woods with yours truly getting a small mention, well I have never been that shy about putting myself in the frame!!!


Was up and about early with Ben in tow to check out more land north of Fes but we were getting wildly fluctuating prices as some people very astute as to what will be developed in the future whilst some had no idea what their land worth. I have a friend Becky over at the moment looking for a Riad and land for her and her husband so we will pool resources brainwise to get to the real price for a nice plot.

Some updated photos and you can see the finished plastered octagonal skylight with admiring worker, ready for leadlight windows now, the terrace with the tiling going down, it will all be finished this Friday up there so time to start picking plants and pots. Inside they are repairing old plaster, putting in miles of electricity cables,installin fuse boxes and also chipping off old plaster and replastering walls inside the house and in the back flue which leads from the basement to the terrace. One picture is the view from the window to be in the laundry room newly built on the terrace, its so good it seems a bit of a waste to have it as just a laundry room!!


Also in one picture the welded metal flooring arrived today which will hold the glass bricks for the interior patio floor for the first floor bedroom. This suite will have a bedroom ensuite, a separate salon overlooking the main salon below and then french windows through to its own patio area which will be open to the sky so the nearest i can get to an indoor garden albeit glassbricked!!

Considering its Ramadan when hours shorten in the working day, they finish at 3pm, the workers who are a whole different bunch of artisans now are still working like Trojans or should that be Romans or Phoenicians. The whole workfoce has changed since I,ve been away as the real craftsmen come in like the carved plaster specialist or the ceiling plasterer and then on the terrace the traditional zellige tiler.

Its all been a learning process for me but I would not swap it for the world, bring it on.