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Tissa Horse Festival ~ Sneak Preview
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 September 2011
Tomorrow (Friday) sees the start of the Tissa Horse Festival. Thanks to our colleague, the photographer Gerard Chemit, we are able to bring you a preview of the preparations in Tissa.
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Join The View from Fez at the Tissa Horse Festival !
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 September 2011
This Saturday, The View from Fez team are heading to the Tissa Horse Festival. We have four places available, leaving at 7am from Fez, spending the day in Tissa and returning from Tissa around 5 pm.If you would like to join us, please email: theviewfromfez@gmail.com for all the details.
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Great Job at a Top Fez Riad
Blog: The View from Fez - 26 September 2011
Riad Laaroussa, one of the top guest houses located in the Medina of Fez, is looking for an experienced waitresses or waiter who is a fluent English speaker. If you are interested, send you resume to Fred Sola: solafred@gmail.com
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How to Spend 24 Hours in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 26 September 2011
Some great advice from Lonely Planet on how to spend your time in the Fez Medina if you are only able to spend one day here.
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Fez Photo of the Day
Blog: The View from Fez - 26 September 2011
Photograph by Jearld F Moldenhauer, courtesy Dar Balmira Gallery, Gzira Fes Medina. (Click image to enlarge)
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"The Hidden Waters of Fez" ~ How you can help!
Blog: The View from Fez - 25 September 2011
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Moroccan Poets Unite with the World
Blog: The View from Fez - 25 September 2011
Thirty-five poets, musicians and keen listeners turned out for the 100,000 Poets for Change event yesterday afternoon. Held at Cafe Clock, it was one of many affiliated events world-wide on the same day. - Suzanna Clarke reports.
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Happening Today in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 24 September 2011
A FRIENDLY REMINDER!CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE
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Sneak Preview of Fez Photo Exhibition
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 September 2011
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Moulay Idriss Moussem - Tomorrow in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 September 2011
The Bab Bou Jeloud at Batha is the place to be around 3pm tomorrow when the fabulous festival, the Moulay Idriss Moussem, takes place.
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The Cervantes Institute Present ~ Jazz in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 September 2011
The Cervantes Institute in Fez are hosting a jazz concert by the Miguel Angel Chastang Quartet. The style is "swing jazz" from a musician who gave up a professional career as an athlete and a possible future career as an architect to study Jazz in Detroit.
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Horse Festival in Tissa Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 September 2011
From October 8 to 15, a small town 50 kilometres from Fez will be transformed by the annual Tissa Horse Festival. It features colourful festivities and displays of horsemanship dating back centuries. Travel writer and co-publisher at Eland travel books, Barnaby Rogerson shares his experiences of the event.
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Cafe Clock to Host 100 Thousand Poets !
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 September 2011
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE
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Fez Culinary Festival 2011
Blog: The View from Fez - 17 September 2011
Bad news for Fez food lovers, gourmet tourists, cooks, chefs and those who simply like to eat - this year the Fez Culinary Festival has been cancelled.
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Celebration of Creative Writing in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 17 September 2011
Can you sing, dance, act or play a musical instrument? The Moroccan Association of Friends of English (MAFE) would like to borrow your talents for an evening.
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Ben Jelloun and the "Arab Spring"
Blog: The View from Fez - 16 September 2011
In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Moroccan-born author and poet Taher Ben Jelloun talks about the Arab Spring and the burgeoning creativity in post-dictatorship countries. He also describes the challenge of writing from the perspective of Libya's former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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Upcoming Culture in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 14 September 2011
Diverse cultural activities are on offer in Fez over the next few months. These include exhibitions, film and a self-development workshop.ExhibitionsHistoric photographs of Fez Trilogie Fassi 1916-1917 opens on September 23 at 6.30pm and will be on show until the end of October at the gallery of the Institute Francais de Fes.
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The Tuesday Souq in Azrou
Blog: The View from Fez - 14 September 2011
For those with a reasonable amount of time in Fez, day trips are a great way to take a break from the Medina and get to see more of the surrounding countryside. The easiest destinations include, Meknes, Volubilis, Moulay Idriss, Sefrou, Ifrane and Azrou. Every week in Morocco there are more than 800 country souqs held. Usually the name of the souq is the name of the day on which it is held. So, on a Tuesday, it is a good plan to head to the Tuesday souq at Azrou.
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Moroccan Tourism ~ on the road to recovery
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 September 2011
After all the turmoil of the "Arab Spring", the aftermath of the Marrakech bombing and the uncertainty surrounding the global financial crisis, Moroccan tourism went into a slump. The visitor numbers dropped, accommodation bookings were at record low levels and the general economy suffered. Ibn Warraq reports on what may be the beginnings of recovery
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La Villa Cafe - Accident - Update
Blog: The View from Fez - 9 September 2011
According to the latest reports five people are dead and fifteen remain in hospital after a gas cylinder explosion in a well known cafe in downtown Fez. Two Australian women had a lucky escape this morning when they left La Villa Cafe in the Ville Nouvelle minutes before the massive explosion rocked the cafe.
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Street Art in the Fez Medina
Blog: The View from Fez - 3 September 2011
Visitors to the Fez Medina often spend most of their time exploring only a couple of the main streets and while that can be a lot of fun, there is much more to be discovered if you leave the hussle and bustle of the tourist areas. Take a wander down to where the streets are quiet and you will find another side of Fez and quite probably a few surprises. The View from Fez team did just this and discovered some beautiful street art in Laayoune and R'cif.
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September Weather in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 1 September 2011
September weather in Fez is set to be right on the average. With daytime maximums varying between 21 and 33 degrees Celsius and night minimums between 12 and 17, it will feel a lot cooler than August.Here are the forecast temperatures for the next few days. Click on the image to enlarge.
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The Call to Prayer ~ to amplify or not?
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 August 2011
For a first time visitor to Morocco, one of the most immediate indications that they are in an Islamic country is the sound, five times a day, of the call to prayer. Because a majority of the mosques now use microphones and amplified speakers, the sound is all pervasive. And there lies a problem - not for visitors but for the locals.
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Ramadan in a Moroccan Town
Blog: Vagobond.com - 29 August 2011
Ramadan with a Moroccan shepherd's family isn't really what I expected it to be. It's not like I'm some stranger here, the shepherd is my wife's father.
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Italian Restaurant in Fez - Reopens
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 August 2011
With Ramadan drawing to a close, eating a long lunch is again back on the agenda. So the news today that one of our favourite restaurants is opening again, comes as good news.
