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Erfoud – Into the Sahara Desert
This is my seventh post from the October 2025 Quintessential Tour of Morocco by Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. In the first six, our group of 17 spent our time exploring three of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, all of which are located in the northwest corner of the country. In this post we […]
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Fes Medina – 9,000 Ways to Get Lost
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Quintessesntial Tour of Morocco we arrived in the fabled city of Fes, Morocco’s second city and the home of the world’s largest medina. Covering 280 hectares or about 700 football fields, it is home to over 150,000 residents along with hundreds and hundreds of shops and restaurants. […]
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Fes – Morocco’s Most Interesting City
The Quintessential Tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad is truly underway. In just three days we have visited three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Rabat, Volubilis and Meknes with more to come as we move on to the ancient imperial city of Fes. However, before visiting the world’s largest medina for which the city is famous, […]
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Meknes – Morocco’s Overlooked Imperial City
Morocco is an unusual country in that it has had four different capital cities over the course of its history. We’ve already visited the current capital Rabat on this Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco and found it to be a very quiet, green and clean contrast to the hustle and bustle of Casablanca. In […]
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Volubilis – Morocco’s Roman World Heritage Site
This is my fourth post from the recently completed Quintessential Morocco Tour by Adventures Abroad. The first post was an overview of the entire trip, explaining why Morocco is a great destination and why Adventures Abroad is a great choice to lead the way. The second post featured Casablanca and the last post the capital […]
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Rabat – Morocco’s Modern Capital
This is my third post on the recently completed Adventures Abroad Quintessential Morocco tour. In the first I gave an overview of the tour and Morocco as a desirable destination. In the second I featured the country’s largest city Casablanca with its amazing Hassan II mosque. In this post I’ll feature the capital city of […]
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Casablanca – Starting out in Morocco
This is my second post from the recently completed Adventures Abroad 15 day Essential Morocco tour, ably guided by Laura Carballo with assistance from George Alexander. The first post was an overview of the trip highlighting the reasons why Morocco is a great destination and why Adventures Abroad is the tour company that you should […]
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Morocco with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I are decompressing at the Eden Andalou resort just outside of Marrakech after a hectic and very exciting 17 day tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad. As with all our Adventures Abroad trips I will start off with an overview post which I hope will give the reader a fair assessment of whether […]
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Banff Springs GC Hole-by-Hole
Stanley Thompson is unquestionably Canada’s most revered golf architect. He is to Canada what Old Tom Morris is to Scotland and Donald Ross to United States, and strangely enough both of them have a connection to Banff. Among the 175 or so courses Thompson is credited with nine are in Canadian National Parks of which […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz