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When you need a break from the ochre walls of Marrakech’s medina, there is no better escape than the blue and green and yellow fantasy land of bamboo and cacti-encircled fountains of Majorelle Gardens. Read More …
Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco, is an exotic retreat filled with vibrant color, shady lanes, flowing water, and exotic plantings. There’s also a nice little museum on Berber culture. I’m a gardener, so the number Read More …
No matter how many times I insisted that North Dakota has trees, it seemed that my husband was never going to believe me. To his credit, he’d never traveled beyond North Dakota’s (basically treeless) Red Read More …
When I was in college I worked with a woman named Deb. One summer, while the rest of us took classes or worked or just goofed off, she sailed to Norway on a 76-foot homemade Read More …
The Danish Consulate in Essaouira was built in 1765 when Mogador became a new, fortified city and Morocco’s busiest trading port. Today the decaying landmark awaits renovation and a new use. Mogador’s Danish Consulate The Read More …
Port cities tend to be places where cultures mix. This particularly true of Essaouira, which was both a major port and politically important city for many years. At the end of the 19th century Essaouira Read More …
The Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota has been celebrating 20 years of collecting great art since moving into the shimmering Gehry building on the Mississippi River. While the building itself is entrancing, Read More …
The port at Essaouira is home to a fishing fleet that is largely comprised of family-owned boats. Many of these are very small boats and almost all are painted blue. They are everywhere – on Read More …
“The conscience of a nation.” In many ways Nelson Mandela was more than that, serving as the conscience of the world. He was both a great leader and the wise father or grandfather of us Read More …
The picturesque West Point Lighthouse sits on a shallow point that juts out into Puget Sound at the point where Elliot Bay begins. The station began operation in 1881 and, while altered over time and Read More …