‘TRAVEL’ Archives
WILDLIFE WATCHING – WHERE YOU WOULDN’T EXPECT IT!
By Chantal Cooke I am looking at a meadow pipit – it’s in the middle of the North Sea sitting on the roof of a large container. This tiny bird and its rather unexpected location sum up the miracle of migration. In the autumn meadow pipits migrate southwards from northern Europe and they stop en-route at the Wadden Sea in Denmark to [...]
THE 2010 FES FESTIVAL IS LET DOWN IN SOME WAYS, BUT STILL PULLS OFF SOME STUNNING HIGHS
The Fes Festival is in its 16th year. Highlights this year have been the spectacular Burundi Drummers, the charismatic Epi from Mongolia, and the amazing Amadou & Mariam, who had even the posh seats bum free as the whole of Bab al Makina danced late into the evening. For 2010 there were a number of improvements, but sadly some aspects of [...]
LIVING IN FES
INTERVIEW: SANDY McCUTCHEON Novelist Sandy McCutcheon spends half the year living in the medina in Fez in Morocco and has become friends with many of the locals – including two women who’s commitment and determination have inspired him. This interview was recorded at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
WORKING THE MEDINA
INTERVIEW: SANDY McCUTCHEON As you walk through the medina in Fez in Morocco you’ll encounter hundreds of tiny businesses from a young guy squeezing fresh orange juice to an elderly man selling hard boiled eggs. So is there a system dictating who does what and where? Australian novelist Sandy McCutcheon has a riad in the medina and is author [...]
ENTREPRENEURIAL FES
INTERVIEW: SANDY McCUTCHEON Wandering around the medina in Fez in Morocco it’s hard not to notice the entrepreneurial spirit of many of the inhabitants. Australian novelist Sandy McCutcheon lives in Fez for 6 months each year and is author of The View From Fez blog and he has great respect for the determination of the local [...]
