Category: Morocco

Homemade food: salmon, banana-squash loaf, dinosaur cookies and chicken soup & stock

I’ve had an extremely busy Sunday last weekend cooking and baking up a deli­cious homemade storm.  Since coming back to Canada I have felt the need and want to create won­der­ful things for Chris and I to eat. The worlds cuisine has inspired and reminded me about how import­ant food is. Before we left too [...]

Lost in Translation

Laura wants to share lots of random photos with you

Currently Chris and I are in a hotel room in Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey. I thought I could post a bunch of random photos for you guys to enjoy. They cover all sorts of dif­fer­ent things and times during our trip, includ­ing our Sahara trek, Italy, Morocco and Turkey. We plan on heading into Iran in [...]

Moroccan ceramics, food, fashion, religion and most important, tips on how to use a squat toilet

During our 3-week adven­ture in Morocco, I noticed some inter­est­ing things that I thought I could share with you.  Currently we are in Bucharest, Romania. We just arrived here yes­ter­day after a one day layover in Milano, Italy and before that we spent a quick two days in Madrid. I will get some photos up [...]

Sahara Diaries, Part 6: The Lows and the Highs

May 16, 2010 — 7:30 pm Forget everything I said before. This place is not romantic. It’s deadly, unfor­giv­ing, and miser­able. Full of pain and agony. Okay, maybe not that bad, but right now Laura and I are in low spirits. We’re tired. We ran out of mineral water, and can’t help but remem­ber how Rashid carelessly [...]